Final diagnosis


Penicillium spp. (fruit rots)

A rot surrounds the stalk scar of this mature fruit. Wet and soft, it is the cause of tissue collapse. A velvety green gray covers it in its center. <b> <i> Penicillium </i> sp. </b> (fruit rots)
<b><i>Penicillium</i> sp.</b> (fruit rots)
<i> Penicillium </i> are also found on green fruit. <b> <i> Penicillium </i> sp. </b> (fruit rots)
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<i> Penicillium </i> are characterized by their brush-like fruiting apparatus. It consists of more or less branched conidiophores, the end of which is not swollen, and may or may not bear differentiated sterigmas, and whorls of phialides at the origin of very many chain conidia. <b> <i> Penicillium expansum </i> </b> (fruit rots)
<i><b>Penicillium expansum</b></i> (fruit rots)