Diseases of Fruit Plantation Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

Leaf and fruit spot

Causal organism: Coelophoma empetri (Rostrup)
Symptom

• On leaves the spots appear as circular, reddish and brown to dark brown in colour.
• These spots coalesce to form bigger sized lesions which are necrotic and dark brown.
• The infected leaves turn pale yellow and drop at a later stage.
• Numerous minute, circular, tan brown spots appear on fruits which turn brown to black later.
• The spots coalesce to form irregular, depressed and hard necrotic lesions.
• Lesions are restricted to epidermis baring black, spherical pycnidia.