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Taphrina pruni Tul., 1866 (Pocket Plum - Causative Organism)

Date: 28 May 2005
Location: Berks, England
State: Infection
Record Summary: Pocket Plums on Sloe
Associated organism: on live, distorted fruit of Prunus spinosa
Identification Notes: Kept in fridge until 3 June, by which time the plums were thickly covered in a layer of asci. Photomicrography: 3 June.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Pocket Plums - close-up 387 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Pocket Plums on shoot 500 by 332 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 487 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 500 by 467 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 500 by 365 pixels
microscope photograph Asci - magnified 500 by 411 pixels

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