Tue, 25 May 2004 12:20:05 -0500 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:

Yesterday visited my plum trees and noticed a few of the small fruits
having blown up like a tire empty of a seed and pale in color. It
reminds me of a similar thing in corn where the kernels puff up almost
like popcorn on the ear. So I wonder if the corn disease is what causes
this plum disease. Please tell what the corn disease is. Please tell
what this plum disease is. I forgotten whether the corn disease is a
fungus or mildew or whatever.

I remember the name now as corn smut and after looking it up, found it is
caused by a fungus.

So then I keyed into the search "plum smut" because this plum disease so
much looks like a corn smut. But the search uncovered "Plum Pox Virus".

I am not sure this inflated plums in early spring is caused by a pox virus.

It resembles more of the corn smut.

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