The disease is called glue crust and stems from the pathogen's habit of moving across trees and gluing together twigs and branches that are in contact with each other.

The main sign is the presence of white fruiting bodies that form crusts attached to the trees, typically on the bark of the trunk.

[1] This disease is primarily localized to Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe, and parts of North America.

These conditions are a temperate climate and are in areas with distinct seasons that make for moderate temperatures due to common rainfall.

[4] Hymenochaete corruguta’s individual genotypes can accomplish this gluing by making sclerotized mycelial pads that form a bridge binding the twigs together from various stools.