That is not what I see, and I note the OP used the look down method instead of the find method as you have in this post.

If I run 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use Data::Dump;
use HTML::Tree;
use LWP::Simple qw(get);

my $content=get('http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/?term=Xylella_fast
+idiosa');

my $tree = HTML::Tree->new();

$tree->parse($content);

my $data =$tree->look_down(
    '_tag' =>'div',
    class => 'genome_descr'
    );

print $data->as_HTML;

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I get the output 
<div class="genome_descr"><p><b>Submitter: </b><a href="http://aeg.lbi
+.ic.unicamp.br/xf/" target="_blank">Sao Paulo state (Brazil) Consorti
+um</a></div>

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If I run with 
my @data =$tree->look_down(
    '_tag' =>'div',
    class => 'genome_descr'
    );

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instead, I get 2 results. How does this compare for you?

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

In reply to Re^3: Problem extracting an HTML table with Perl by kennethk
in thread Problem extracting an HTML table with Perl by Sosi

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