Identification Symptoms

  • Alga infects immature guava leaves during early spring flush.
  • Minute, shallow brown velvety lesions appear on leaves specialy on leaf tips, margins or areas near the mid vein and as the disease progresses, the lesions enlarge to 2-3 mm in diameter.
  • On leaves the spots may vary form specks to big patches which may be crowded or scattered.
  • On immature fruits the lesions are nearly black. As fruits enlarge, lesions get sunken and get cracked frequently on older blemishes as a result of enlargement of fruits, lesions are usually smaller than leaf spots. They are darkish green to brown or black to colour