A Kitsap County, WA residential landscape site was found to have
P. ramorum-positive Rhododendron Sp. 'Roseum Elegans' on 6/10/09 as part of a trace-forward investigation from an infested wholesale/production nursery in Thurston County, WA. The plant was removed and destroyed per the APHIS, PPQ "Official Regulatory Protocol for Phytophthora ramorum Detections in Landscaped Residential or Commercial Settings."
A King County, WA production nursery was confirmed to have
P. ramorum-positive Rhododendron Sp. 'Jean de Montaque' and Rhododendron Sp. 'Wojnar's Purple' on 6/23/09. The nursery was also found positive in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
From the July COMTF newsletter
http://www.suddenoakdeath.org/html/current_newsletter.html
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