Identification Symptoms

  • Fruit may be infected when green and small, but symptoms do not appear until it begins to ripen.
  • Symptoms first appear on ripe fruits as small, slightly depressed circular lesions.
  • 12 mm Lesions and become more sunken, with concentric ring markings.
  • Centre is usually tan, and as the lesion matures becomes dotted with small black specks
  • Surface of the mature lesion remains smooth and intact.
  • Small, circular, brown lesions surrounded by yellow halos characterize leaf infections.