Nearly one-third of the sheesham trees, Dalbergia, have been damaged by a fungi attack in the mid-hills of Himachal Pradesh and Kandi belt of Hoshiarpur. Worse still, the fungi, genoderma lucidum and fusarium oxysssporum, have begun to affect Tunni, a timber species, and kikkar trees in the lower belt of Himachal Pradesh too. According to a survey conducted by scientists headed by Dr R.C. Sharma, as associate professor in the Dr Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forstry, Nauni, about 30 per cent of the sheesham plantations have been completely damaged.