Plants Resistant or Susceptible to Armillaria Root Rot

Plants Resistant or Susceptible to Armillaria Root Rot

Resistant

Susceptible

incense cedar

pines (MI)

larch

arborvitae (HI)

Scots pine (MI)

cedar (HI)

Smoketree (LI

Douglas-fir

Ginkgo (LI)

hemlock

bigleaf maple (MI)

juniper (MI)

catalpa (LI)

ponderosa pine

Japanese maple (MI)

western red cedar (HI)

Japanese pagoda tree (LI)

white fir (HI)

locust (HI)

aspen (MI)

madrone (LI)

birch (HI)

mulberry (LI)

cotoneaster (HI)

tulip tree (HI)

cottonwood (HI)

shademaster locust

cherry laurel (MI)

sweet gum (HI)

crabapple (MI)

sycamore (MI)

dogwood (MI)

golden chain tree (HI)

oak (HI)

tanoak

Resistant

Susceptible

Chinese wisteria

euonymus (MI)

English holly (MI)

Fuchsia (LI)

English ivy (LI)

heather (LI)

mock orange (LI)

hibiscus (LI)

sumac (MI)

hydrangea (LI)

Boxwood (LI)

lilac (HI)

Sarcoccora (LI)

privet (HI)

Heavenly Bamboo (LI)

rhododendron (HI)

Resistant

Susceptible

St. Johnswort (Hypericum
patulum) (LI)

geranium

Honeysuckle (LI)

poinsettia

rose (MI)

Resistant

Susceptible

pear ‘Callery,’ ‘French,’ ‘OH x F’(LI)

apricot (MI)

pecan

blackberry (LI)

plum ‘Marianna’(MI)

grape

mahaleb cherry

raspberry (LI)

strawberry

walnut (HI)

Reference Raabe, R.D. 1979. Resistance or Susceptibility of Certain Plants to Armillaria Root Rot. University of California Leaflet 2591.

Raabe, R.D., 2008. Plants Resistant or Susceptible to Armillaria
mellea, The Oak Root Fungus. University of California, Berkeley.

Cromey, M. G., Drakulic, J., Beal, E. J., Waghorn, I. A., Perry, J. N. and Clover, G. R. 2020. Susceptibility of Garden Trees and Shrubs to Armillaria Root Rot. Plant Disease, 104:483-492. Where LI = low index, MI = medium index and HI = high index.