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The article focuses on the box blight plant disease and proposed measures for the management of the disease. It recalls the introduction of the fungus Cylindrocladium buxicola in Great Britain in the 1990s which has caused leaf spots, defoliation, die-back and death among the Buxus plant species or box. It discusses the life cycle, death as well as infectivity of the fungus. One proposed action to address the problem involves the development of a diagnostic tool for non-specialists.