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THE CUBA REVIEW 



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Coconut Palms, showing leaf droop and nut fall. (Courtesy of Agricultural Experiment Station, 



Santiago de las Vegas.) 



tacked the tree will die. The Phytophthora which causes the fall of nuts has been 

 found on the diseased leaf bases and there is no doubt the leaf droop and the nut fall 

 are of the same fungus. 



