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Nature 415, 251 (17 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415251a

Fears mount as oak blight infects redwoods

Jonathan Knight

A disease that is killing oak trees by the thousand in California has been found in the dying needles of the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). The redwood is the world's tallest tree and has great symbolic and economic importance for the state.