StoraEnso Guangxi is managing about 90,000ha plantation in the south of Guangxi China with 80%of the area for Eucalyptus and 20%is planted with non-Eucalyptus trees.
During the early 1990s severe mortality was experienced in young Eucalyptus grandis plantations,due mainly to Chrysoporthe canker(caused by Chrysoporthe austroafricana)and other diseases.