橡胶树丛枝病在我国橡胶垦区的发生历史可能已相当久远。老工人及科技人员反映,解放以来便经常在实生苗圃和芽接苗圃看见过少量的橡胶树丛枝病,但病因不明,国外1959年Roger N.Hilton在马来西亚报道橡胶幼树会发生此病,原因不明;1975年B.Sripathi Rao在马来西亚也报道橡胶幼树发生此病。他提出此病的病因有:少数情况下由遗传引起,其他是由机械伤引起的, The occurrence of rubber tree bush disease in China’s rubber reclamation area may have been quite long. The old workers and scientists report that a small amount of rubber tree shoots have been seen in the nursery and budding nurseries since liberation, but the cause is unknown. In 1959, Roger N. Hilton in Malaysia reported that rubber saplings would occur for unknown reasons 1975; B. Sripathi Rao also reported rubbery saplings in Malaysia. He put forward the etiology of the disease are: a few cases caused by the genetic, others are caused by mechanical injury,