Taphrina pruni (Fuckel) Tul.
(Pocket Plum - causative organism)

Interactions where Taphrina pruni is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
infection		infection causes gall of live fruit			Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Taphrinomycetes/Taphrinales/Taphrinaceae/Taphrina pruni/	Taphrina pruni	pocket plum (causative organism)				infection	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus/	Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry		live	fruit
infection		infection causes gall of live fruit			Prunus domestica	Wild Plum	Rosales: Rosaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Taphrinomycetes/Taphrinales/Taphrinaceae/Taphrina pruni/	Taphrina pruni	pocket plum (causative organism)				infection	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus domestica/	Prunus domestica	wild plum		live	fruit
infection		infection causes gall of live, smooth, green, elongate, twisted, flattened, concave one side fruit (young)			Prunus domestica ssp domestica	Plum	Rosales: Rosaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Taphrinomycetes/Taphrinales/Taphrinaceae/Taphrina pruni/	Taphrina pruni	pocket plum (causative organism)				infection	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus domestica subsp. domestica/	Prunus domestica subsp. domestica	plum		live, smooth, green, elongate, twisted, flattened, concave one side	fruit (young)		Rare
infection		infection causes gall of pale, shrivelled, covered with off-white bloom of spores fruit (later)			Prunus domestica ssp domestica	Plum	Rosales: Rosaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Taphrinomycetes/Taphrinales/Taphrinaceae/Taphrina pruni/	Taphrina pruni	pocket plum (causative organism)				infection	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus domestica subsp. domestica/	Prunus domestica subsp. domestica	plum		pale, shrivelled, covered with off-white bloom of spores	fruit (later)		Rare
infection		infection causes gall of live fruit			Prunus spinosa	Blackthorn, Sloe	Rosales: Rosaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Taphrinomycetes/Taphrinales/Taphrinaceae/Taphrina pruni/	Taphrina pruni	pocket plum (causative organism)				infection	Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus spinosa/	Prunus spinosa	blackthorn, sloe		live	fruit
infection		infection infects and damages live, stunted, pale yellow tinged red, strap-like leaf			Prunus spinosa	Blackthorn, Sloe	Rosales: Rosaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Taphrinomycetes/Taphrinales/Taphrinaceae/Taphrina pruni/	Taphrina pruni	pocket plum (causative organism)				infection	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus spinosa/	Prunus spinosa	blackthorn, sloe		live, stunted, pale yellow tinged red, strap-like	leaf
infection		infection infects and damages live, distorted, stunted, swollen, pale yellow tinged red shoot			Prunus spinosa	Blackthorn, Sloe	Rosales: Rosaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Taphrinomycetes/Taphrinales/Taphrinaceae/Taphrina pruni/	Taphrina pruni	pocket plum (causative organism)				infection	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus spinosa/	Prunus spinosa	blackthorn, sloe		live, distorted, stunted, swollen, pale yellow tinged red	shoot

Author & Year	Title	Source
Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants	Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls	95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)

Taphrina pruni (Pocket Plum - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Taphrina pruni (Pocket Plum - causative organism) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Taphrina pruni (Pocket Plum - causative organism)
Genus	Taphrina (tongue fungi)
Family	TAPHRINACEAE (tongue fungi)
Order	TAPHRINALES (an order of ascomycetes)
Subclass	TAPHRINOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of ascomycetes)
Class	TAPHRINOMYCETES (a class of ascomycetes)
Subphylum	TAPHRINOMYCOTINA (pneumocystid fungi)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Taphrina pruni is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ascomycota)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Taphrina pruni (Pocket Plum - causative organism)

Taphrina pruni (Pocket Plum - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

TAPHRINALES
(an order of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Taphrina pruni (Pocket Plum - causative organism):

Taphrina
(tongue fungi)

TAPHRINALES
(an order of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

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