Australia's native guava plant close to being wiped out by invasive disease – study

They are the living dead,' researcher says of last trees in the wild to have escaped fungal disease myrtle rust

An invasive plant disease may be ready to claim its first victim in the wild with Australia's native guava now almost extinct, a study has found.

Monitoring of 66 populations of native guava in Queensland and New South Wales has found 23% could not be located" with another 61% reduced only to root suckers below a dead canopy.