If you look through viruses, you will see a lot of pictures of the “Gold Dust” Japanese aucuba identified as Genus Badnavirus. So many, in fact, that I have been told that the CV identifies such pictures as the virus rather than the plant. And while it is true that the"Gold Dust" effect that makes this tree popular in horticulture is, indeed, a symptom of viral infection, some of the comments on such observations have questioned whether it is at all useful to observe so heavily a virus that after all has a range essentially exactly matching the cultivation of an ornamental plant. When have you ever seen a cultivated Japanese aucuba that wasn’t the “Gold Dust” (infected) variety?