Disease · 11 plants in our database

Brown rot

Monilinia laxa, M. fructigena

11 plants in our database

Which plants

Where you will find it.

Signs and protection differ by plant — the exact steps are on each plant’s page.

ApricotPrunus armeniacaFrom midsummer

Fruit rots brown with cream-coloured spore pustules, drops or dries up as mummified fruit on the tree. At flowering, blossoms and fruiting spurs turn brown and wilt (blossom wilt). Severity varies with the weather at flowering time.

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Common medlarMespilus germanicaFrom midsummer

Spreading brown rot of fruit with pale brown spores; fruit mummify.

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Higan cherryPrunus subhirtellaFrom midsummer

Blossoms and shoots dry up (blossom wilt); fruit rots, mummifies and stays on the tree; cream-coloured spore pustules in rings on the fruit.

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Japanese flowering cherryPrunus serrulataFrom midsummer

Blossoms and shoots dry up (blossom wilt); fruit rots, mummifies and stays on the tree; cream-coloured spore pustules in rings on the fruit.

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PeachPrunus persica

Fruit rots brown with cream-coloured spore pustules, drops or dries up as mummified fruit on the tree. At flowering, blossoms and fruiting spurs turn brown and wilt (blossom wilt). Severity varies with the weather at flowering time.

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PlumPrunus domesticaFrom midsummer

Fruit rots brown with cream-coloured spore pustules, drops or dries up as mummified fruit on the tree. At flowering, blossoms and fruiting spurs turn brown and wilt (blossom wilt). Severity varies with the weather at flowering time.

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QuinceCydonia oblongaFrom midsummer

Spreading brown rot of fruit with pale brown spores; fruit mummify.

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Sour cherryPrunus cerasusFrom midsummer

Fruit rots brown with cream-coloured spore pustules, drops or dries up as mummified fruit on the tree. At flowering, blossoms and fruiting spurs turn brown and wilt (blossom wilt). Severity varies with the weather at flowering time.

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Wild cherryPrunus aviumFrom midsummer

Fruit rots brown with cream-coloured spore pustules, drops or dries up as mummified fruit on the tree. At flowering, blossoms and fruiting spurs turn brown and wilt (blossom wilt). Severity varies with the weather at flowering time.

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Yoshino cherryPrunus × yedoensisFrom midsummer

Blossoms and shoots dry up (blossom wilt); fruit rots, mummifies and stays on the tree; cream-coloured spore pustules in rings on the fruit.

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