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Podosphaera aphanis
Podosphaera aphanis infects leaves, flowers, and fruit. Early foliage infections are characterised by small white patches of fungus growing on the lower leaf surface. On susceptible plants, dense mycelial growth and numerous chains of conidia (spores) give these patches a powdery appearance. Under favourable conditions, the patches expand and coalesce until the entire lower surface of the leaf is covered. In some strawberry cultivars, relatively little mycelium is produced, making it difficult to see the white patches. Instead, irregular yellow or reddish-brown spots develop on colonized areas on the lower leaf surface and eventually break through to the upper surface. The edges of heavily infected leaves curl upward. At times, dark round structures (cleistothecia) are produced in the mycelia on the undersides of leaves. These cleistothecia are initially white but turn black as they mature. The fungus also infects flowers, which may produce aborted or malformed fruit.
Although sometimes known as Podosphaera aphanis affects a range of plants including Ladys-mantle, Cinquefoil, Eucalyptus and Rubus species and may be found where any of these host plants are present.
When the host plants are in leaf.
Widespread in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Erysiphales
- Family:
- Erysiphaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 21
- First record:
- 24/06/2016 (Grimes, Martin)
- Last record:
- 04/09/2024 (lemmon, roy)
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