| If I can manage it, here (attached, I hope) are a couple of photographs of 'pocket plums'. One shows infected Sloes with one uninfected one. The infected ones in this shot are quite yellow, though not as yellow as I recall them being last Friday. The other shot shows that some have gone an unpleasant brownish colour - whether this is the fungus itself, or a secondary mould, I'm not sure.
Quite a lot of the Sloes in this hedge are infected - Sloe Gin makers will have a hard time this year. The infection rate in my garden is much lower, though a lot of the leaves there are heavily galled by the mite Eriophyes similis.
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