Another delightful well written piece by Jennifer Frazer in her SciAm blog. She presents a solution to a unknown fungus that showed up as a blanket of orange spores in the water near the town of Kivalina, Alaska. “Mystery of Alaskan “Goo” Rust Solved at Last”. Jennifer writes that the rust spores are from:
Spruce-Labrador Tea Needle Rust, Chrysomyxa ledicola, a parasite of both spruce trees and arhododendron — a flowering woody shrub common to conifer understories the world over — called Labrador Tea.