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Rust (fungus)

This article is about the fungus. For the corrosion process, see rust.

Rusts are fungi of the order Uredinales, which infect plants. Many of them have two or more hosts (heteroecious) and up to five spore stages. Among them is Gymnosporangium, the cedar-apple and juniper-hawthorn rusts.