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Missouri’s rare pondberry is in grave danger as laurel wilt disease, carried by an invasive beetle, inches closer—already devastating neighbors like Tennessee and Arkansas. This fungus kills laurel-family plants by blocking their waterways, and with habitat loss and the plant’s need for both male and female partners to reproduce, the pondberry’s survival is hanging by a thread. Conservationists at the Missouri Botanical Garden have been working since 1985 to save it, but time is running out. There’s no cure for laurel wilt, but you can help: don’t move firewood across state lines—it’s the best way to slow the spread of this silent killer.

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