Ready for a Latin Lesson?

Since my life is so important and exciting, I started a blog. And just to prove how exciting and important my life is, I must inform all yall I have an exam tonight for Plant Pathology 309: Diseases of trees and woody ornamentals. I know, I know...you're life feels so much more complete knowing this vital fact about my life as a PlantPath Girl. Sorry for not telling you this sooner; I won't leave you hanging like that ever again. Promise.

Before I teach you Latin, here are some pictures I took. Relax your brain before it gets stressed!

Anyways, who's ready for a Latin lesson? I'm going to give you a list of every disease I have to know for my exam tonight; first in Latin and then the English common name. Ready? If it hurts your head reading it, it's okay. Just think of me who has to know how to pronounce them, how to spell them correctly, how to identify them, and distinguish them from similar diseases. Just another way to prove how exciting and important my life is. Wow, I'm so cool.

Do you know how hard it is to capture a picture like this. It took me over 50 times for the bee to land, stay there, my camera to snap the picture and for it to turn out beautiful.

Ready? Make sure you're sitting before you start this. My apologies if your mind explodes after 10 of these. Mine did too the first time I saw a name like this.

Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae - "Cedar"-apple rust
Gymnosporangium globosum - (American) Hawthorn rust
Gymnosporangium clavipes - Quince rust
Blumeriella jaapii (sex)/Phleosporella padi (asex) - Cherry Leaf Spot
Rhizopus sp. (multiple speceis) - soft rot of fruits and vegetables
Pythium sp. - damping off and root rot of seedlings
Scoria sp. - sooty molds
Taphrina spp. - Peach leaf curl and oak leaf blister (for example)
ALL OF THE POWDERY MILDEWS (thousands of species - literally)
Venturia inaequalis - apple scab
Stegophora ulmea - elm leaf spot
Gnomonia caryae - hickory leaf blotch
Phyllosticta spp. - Phllosticta leaf spot
Rhytisma spp. - tar spots of maple
Rhizosphaera kaloffii - Rhizosphaera needlecast of blue spruce
Lophodermium seditiosum - Lophodermium needlecast of pines
Rhabdocline pseudotsugae - Rhadbdocline needlecast of Douglas-fir
Phaeocryptopus gaeumanii - Swiss needlecast
Discula spp. - Anthracnoses of all types of trees
Dothistoma pini - Dothistroma blight of pines
Lecanosticta acicola - Brown spot needle blight
Sirococcus conigenus/S. tsugae (2 name because of taxonomic issues) -Sirococcus shoot blight of conifers
Diplodia pinea - Diplodia shoot blight and canker of conifers
DECLINE "DISEASES" - not really a disease but tree dies from multiple stuffs
Cronartium ribicola - White pine blister rust
Melampsora medusae - poplar leaf rust
Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme - loblolly pine fusiform rust
Phragmidium sp. - rose rust (autoecious but macrocyclic) - one host but all 5 basidiospore types <-- not the most common thing to have
Chrysomyxa weirii - Weir's cushion rust of spruces
Cronartium quercuum f. sp. banksiana - Pine oak gall rust
Peridermium harknessii - pine pine gall rust
Coleosporium sp. needle rusts of pines
Melampsorella caryophyllacearum - broom rust of fir
Ophiostoma ulmi (Ceratocystis ulmi) and Ophiostoma novo-ulmi - Dutch Elm Disease (this is why there are barely any Elms left in the USA....thanks horticulturists!!!) both of these pathogens are exotic 
      *three spore-producing forms: Graphium (asex/imperfect), Cephalosporium (asex/imperfect), Ophistoma (sex/perfect)
Ceratocystis fagacearum - OAK WILT - (this is why the Oaks are dying...once again thanks to the damn horticulturists!!!)
      *two spore producing forms: Chalara (asex/imperfect), Ceratocystis (sex)
Leptographium wagerneri/ L. procerum/ L. terebrantis - pocket mortality of red pine in the western USA and Canada
Ceratocystis virescense (C. coerulescens) - sapstreak of sugar maple (northern US) and tulip popular (TN and NC)
Verticillium sp. - Verticillium wilts of a lot of tree species
Cytospora (Valsa) sp. - cytospora canker of peach and other trees (conditional)
Phomopsis sp. - Phomopsis canker (conditional canker - least bad)
Biscogniauxia atropunctata (Hypoxylon) - Hypoxylon canker of oak (cond.)
Tubercularia ulmea - coral spot canker of maple (conditional)
Cryptococcus fagisuga (Nectria complex) - beech bark disease complex (cond)
Fusarium solani - Fusarium canker (annual) of sugar maple
Apiosporina morbosa - Black knot canker of the genus Prunus (perennial canker)
Neonectria ditissima (Nectria galligena) - Nectria canker (perennial)
Eutypella parasitica - Eutypella canker of maple (perennial)
Cryphonectria parasitica (Endothia) - chestnut blight (diffuse - worst type of canker) also why the American Chestnut is almost extinct
Sirococcus clabigignenti-juglandacearum - Butternut canker
Sexmeria cassioides - parasitic flowering plants of the figwort family
Striga asiatica - witchweed
Cuscuta sp. - dodders of the morning glory family
Viscum sp. - European leafy mistletoes
Phoradendron sp. - American leafy mistletoes
Arceutobium sp. - dwarf mistletoes
Inonotus obliquus (Poria) - "canker-rot"/sterile conk on birch
Phellinus pini - white rot/heartrot on pine and conifers
Phellinus tremulae - white rot of aspens
Phellinus ignarius - white rot of various hardwoods
Phellinus everhartii - white rot of oaks
Phellinus robiniae (Fomes rimosus) - heartwood decay of locust
Grifola frondosa - white butt rot of hardwoods and some conifers
Ganoderma sp. - white rot of conifers and hardwoods - annuals/perennials
Laetiporus sulphureus - cubical brown rot of hardwoods and conifers
Piptoporous betulinus - cubical brown rot of birch
Trametes versicolor - sapwood decay of hardwoods, white rot
Fomes fomentarius - hoof shaped white rot of hardwoods
Fomitopsis pinicola - brown cubical rot of hardwoods and conifers
Oxyporus populinus - heartrot of maples
Armillaria sp. - Armillaria root rot of conifers and hardwoods
Heterobasisidon irregulare - stringy white rot of hardwoods and conifers
Onnia tomentosa - white pocket rot of spruces
Phaeolus schweinitzii - (try spelling that right) - brown cubical rot of roots and butts of conifers
Hericium erinaceous - "hedgehog" decay
Hypzizygus almarius - "elm oyster" decay fungus

Oh by the way, this isn't a complete list of the diseases we learned. My fingers got tired and I didn't want to give you too much of an overload!! Ha, who am I kidding...five of those names is enough to give anyone a stroke. Hey, at least it was a really good review for me :)  Sorry if anyone has a stress headache from trying to make sense of the fancy schmancy words above! I'll throw in a few pictures to give your mind a break. And I'll even provide a biaurnal beats video to relieve your headache!

Here's the video (of course it has nature in it!)  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uumZMVylvs0

PICTURES!!!! - from forestryimages.org - excellent website if you ever get bored

Striga hermonthica- purple witchweed

Apiosporina morbosa - Black Knot of Black Cherry

Phoradendron sp. (all the green you see on the tree is the mistletoe NOT the conifer needles!

Rhabdocline pseudotsugae on Douglas Fir

Venturia inaequalis - Apple Scab - perithecium with ascospores inside (the blue blob)

Melamspora medusae - the orange pustules are the uredinial phase which then give rise the the brown/rusty scab which is the telial phase

Rhytisma - tar spot of maple - there are acervulli in the black spots. Each black spot is caused by a different spore infection. This leaf has been infected with 7 spores each at a different time.