State officials said rapid ohia death has been detected in three trees at a Maui elementary school campus. The landscape ohia trees were infected with Ceratocystis huliohia, the less virulent strain ...

COURTESY DLNR The landscape ohia trees were infected with Ceratocystis huliohia, the less virulent strain of the fungal pathogen, according to the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources.

An untreated scrape on a person’s skin can lead to a staph infection; a similar but more drastic result is true for ohia. When some external force breaks through a tree’s bark, invading ...

Huliohia (slower moving fungus of rapid ohia death). The tree was spotted during an aerial survey by using digital surface model techniques. Photo courtesy of The Nature Conservancy on Kauai While ...

The fungal infection known as Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death (ROD) was detected late last month in three landscape ʻōhiʻa trees on the ...

HONOLULU Rapid Ohia Death has been found on Oahu.

known as the Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act of 2025, aims to address a specific tree disease affecting the native Hawaiian tree species known as 'ohia, which is caused by a fungal pathogen.