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UK Risk Register Details for Coleosporium asterum

This record was last updated on 20/01/2023

Common Names

  • Needle cast: red pine
  • Rust: aster
  • Rust: Solidago spp.

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest is introduced

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)
  • Cut flowers or branches

Common Pathways

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)
  • Cut flowers or branches

Risk Ratings and Current Mitigations

Unmitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 3
Spread [1 - 5] 5
Impact [1 - 5] 2
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 6
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 30

Current Mitigations

  • show / hide

Key mitigation for pest

Regulated pest

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 3
Spread [1 - 5] 5
Impact [1 - 5] 2
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 6
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 30

Proposed Actions

Proposed Actions

Regulation

Deregulation

Management By Industry

Targeted Survey

PRA

Contingency Plan

Publicity

Research

Distribution and Pest Details

Distribution

Country / Territory Status Notes
Europe
United Kingdom Absent
Türkiye Present
Russia Present
North America
United States Present
Mexico Present
Canada Present
South America
Brazil Present
Colombia Present
Africa
Zimbabwe Present
Kenya Present
Zambia Present
Asia Present
China Present
Japan Present
South Korea Present
India Present
Taiwan Present
Central America
Bermuda Present

Type of Pest

  • Fungus

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Forestry

Major Hosts

  • Aster L.
  • Callistephus Cass.
  • Erigeron L.
  • Grindelia Willd.
  • Haplopappus Cass. Corr. Endl.
  • Heterotheca Cass.
  • Launaea sarmentosa (Willd.) Sch.Bip. Ex O.Kuntze
  • Machaeranthera Nees
  • Pinus banksiana Lamb.
  • Pinus contorta Dougl. Ex Loud.
  • Pinus echinata Mill.
  • Pinus mugo ssp. mugo Turra
  • Pinus nigra ssp. nigra Arn.
  • Pinus ponderosa Dougl. Ex P. & C.Laws.
  • Pinus pungens Lamb.
  • Pinus resinosa Ait./Soland.
  • Pinus rigida Mill.
  • Pinus sylvestris Linnaeus
  • Pinus taeda L.
  • Pinus thunbergii Parl.
  • Pinus virginiana Mill.
  • Solidago L.
  • Solidaster (x Solidaster) Wehrh.

Threats to Protected Cultivation

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Coniferous

Further Information

PRA Availability

UK (2005), UK (2014)

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Provisional quarantine pest (Great Britain); bonsai derogation (Northern Ireland)

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

Statutory action in Great Britain and Northern Ireland

General Comments

Dioecious rust (affecting two main host families), of which the main host is prohibited, which provides some mitigation of the risk. If introduced is unlikely to be more damaging than native rusts, and current control methods are likely to help.

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