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Sporotrichosis, also known as rose handler's disease, [2] is a fungal infection that may be localised to skin, lungs, bone and joint, or become systemic. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] It presents with firm painless nodules that later ulcerate . [ 3 ]
It is this route of infection, coupled with its presence on roses that give sporotrichosis its common name of "rose-handler's disease" [16] or "rose thorn disease". [17] Inhalation of spores is a rare route of infection largely associated with immunocompromised hosts. [18]
Prickles on a blackberry branch. In plant morphology, thorns, spines, and prickles, and in general spinose structures (sometimes called spinose teeth or spinose apical processes), are hard, rigid extensions or modifications of leaves, roots, stems, or buds with sharp, stiff ends, and generally serve the same function: physically defending plants against herbivory.
Grapevine tendrils and leaves. Thorns. Cladodes. Aerial stem modifications are modifications to the aerial stems, [1] vegetative buds and floral buds of plants growing in different conditions and which perform functions such as climbing, protection, support, synthesis of food, or vegetative propagation.
Diplolepis rosae is a gall wasp which causes a gall known as the rose bedeguar gall, bedeguar gall wasp, Robin's pincushion, mossy rose gall, or simply moss gall. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The gall develops as a chemically induced distortion of an unopened leaf axillary or terminal bud, mostly on field rose ( Rosa arvensis ) or dog rose ( Rosa canina ) shrubs.
Umbonia crassicornis, commonly known as the thorn bug, is a widespread member of the insect family Membracidae, and an occasional pest of ornamentals and fruit trees in southern Florida. The body length of the adult is approximately 10 millimetres (0.39 in).
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Macrosiphum rosae, the rose aphid, is a species of sap-sucking aphids in the subfamily Aphidinae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They have a world-wide distribution and infest rosebushes as the main host in spring and early summer, congregating on the tips of shoots and around new buds.