| Blackthorn
I'm not quite sure where to post this! Fungi? Wild Flowers and Plants? I plumped for Trees.
During my lunch-time walk today I noticed some splendid examples of 'pocket plum' affecting the developing sloes on the Blackthorn. This is caused by a fungal infection (Taphrina pruni) that causes the sloe to swell, elongate and turn yellowish. rather as if the Blackthorn was bearing some miniature bananas! I'll try and get a photograph in the next few days to post.
Some years are worse than others for this infection, and apparently it can affect other species of plum, though I've only seen it on Blackthorn.
henrya |