Paul Bachi, University of Kentucky Research and Education Center, Bugwood.org
Infected needles show brown spots with dark border and/or dead tips with dark border between dead and healthy portion of the needle.
Needles show brown spots with dark border.
Close-up of dead needle tip with black, spore-producing bodies ("acervuli") breaking through needle surface.
Spores of the anamorph fungus Dothistroma septosporum.