![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3412/jpeg/11t.jpg) Black blotches on underside of the leaf of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) caused by Cercospora leaf spot fungus Pseudocercospora diospyricola in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 31, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2756/jpeg/19t.jpg) Black blotches on the leaf of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) caused by Cercospora leaf spot fungus Pseudocercospora diospyricola on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 21, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3211/jpeg/10t.jpg) Black blotches on the leaf of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) caused by Cercospora leaf spot fungus Pseudocercospora diospyricola on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 18, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3412/jpeg/12t.jpg) Black blotches on leaves of persimmon caused by Cercospora leaf spot fungus Pseudocercospora diospyricola under a microscope, collected in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 31, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2756/jpeg/18t.jpg) Necrotic spots that develop into angular lesions on underside of a leaf of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) caused by persimmon Cercospora leaf spot fungus Pseudocercospora diospyricola on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 21, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3412/jpeg/10t.jpg) Leaves of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) prematurely turned yellow with black spots of fungus Pseudocercospora diospyricola in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 31, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2756/jpeg/21t.jpg) Leaf of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) prematurely turned yellow with black spots of fungus Pseudocercospora diospyricola on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 21, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3160/jpeg/06t.jpg) Persimmon leaf blister galls caused by bead gall mite Aceria theospyri on leaves of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 26, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1101/jpeg/01t.jpg) Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) in Lake Bryan Park. Bryan, Texas, August 26, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3348/jpeg/15t.jpg) Underside of a leaf of curly dock (Rumex crispus) with reddish purple blotches caused by fungus Ramularia rubella in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 24, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3348/jpeg/14t.jpg) Close-up of a leaf of curly dock (Rumex crispus) with reddish purple blotches caused by fungus Ramularia rubella in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 24, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1101/jpeg/02t.jpg) Fruits of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) in Lake Bryan Park. Bryan, Texas, August 26, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3348/jpeg/13t.jpg) Leaves of curly dock (Rumex crispus) with reddish purple blotches caused by fungus Ramularia rubella in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 24, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1103/jpeg/06t.jpg) Collected fruits of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) on a log in Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 8, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/674/jpeg/16t.jpg) Fruit of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) on north shore of Lake Somerville. Texas, September 27, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/464/jpeg/21t.jpg) Wild persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) near Gan s Creek trail head (blue trail) in Rock Bridge State Park. Columbia, Missouri, September 16, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/793/jpeg/08t.jpg) Fruits of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) in Lake Bryan Park. Bryan, Texas, September 18, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2520/jpeg/04t.jpg) Leaves of yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) with black spots caused by rust like fungus on black background in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, June 5, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/783/jpeg/07t.jpg) Texas persimmon (Chapote, Diospyros texana) with black fruits in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, July 29, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/745/jpeg/17t.jpg) Greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flower of persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, May 9, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2516/jpeg/02t.jpg) Leaves of bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius) with reddish purple blotches caused by fungus Ramularia rubella in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 30, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3212/jpeg/17t.jpg) Brown rotting leaves of mustang grape and black leaf of hackberry on the ground after recent rains in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 19, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2516/jpeg/01t.jpg) Reddish purple blotches on leaves of broad leaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius) caused by a plant pathogen fungus Ramularia rubella in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 30, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1237/jpeg/13t.jpg) Texas persimmon (Chapote, Diospyros texana) in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, August 16, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2520/jpeg/03t.jpg) Leaves of yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) with black spots caused by rust like fungus in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, June 5, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1929/jpeg/17t.jpg) Various leaves with black fungus dots Mycosphaerella leaf spot (Mycosphaerella microsora)? in Lisiy Nos, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, October 9, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2891/jpeg/22t.jpg) Leaf of crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) with a wart caused by fungus Synchytrium geranii on a lawn in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, March 25, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2557/jpeg/12t.jpg) Black dots of fruiting structures of a fungus Ophiodothella vaccinii on leaves of farkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3252/jpeg/28t.jpg) Flat-topped goldenrod (Euthamia leptocephala) with leaf tar spots caused by gall midge Asteromyia euthamiae with a symbiotic fungus Botryosphaeria dothidea in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3165/jpeg/04t.jpg) Flat-topped goldenrod (Euthamia leptocephala) with leaf tar spots caused by gall midge Asteromyia euthamiae with a symbiotic fungus Botryosphaeria dothidea in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 1, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3186/jpeg/21t.jpg) Yellow spots caused by some rust fungus on a leaf of jumpseed (knotweed, Persicaria virginiana) on floodplain on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 3, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/886/jpeg/11t.jpg) Black beetle on a leaf of woolly croton in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 3, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2889/jpeg/30t.jpg) Leaves of crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) with red galls caused by wart disease (false rust) by fungus Synchytrium geranii (Chytrids) taken from Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 23, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2889/jpeg/29t.jpg) Malformed basal leaves of crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) with wart disease (false rust) caused by fungus Synchytrium geranii (Chytrids) taken from Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 23, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2704/jpeg/02t.jpg) Circular dark purplish red spots with centers fading with age caused by Deutero fungus (Neocercosporidium smilacis, Cercospora smilacis) on leaves of common greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3206/jpeg/19t.jpg) Dried curled leaves of elm and black willow in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/10t.jpg) Fan-shaped caps bruising black when cut or touched of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3201/jpeg/24t.jpg) Brown dried leaves of black willow on the ground in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3201/jpeg/21t.jpg) Brown dried leaves of elm and black willow on the ground in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3201/jpeg/22t.jpg) Brown curled leaves of elm and black willow on the ground in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3189/jpeg/16t.jpg) Black balls of rust fungus Uromyces lespedezae or may be Cercospora from underside of leaves of hairy bush clover collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3005/jpeg/14t.jpg) Some narrow-leaf spurge (Euphorbia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 12, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3189/jpeg/15t.jpg) Black balls of rust fungus Uromyces lespedezae or may be Cercospora from underside of leaves of hairy bush clover under a microscope at low magnifications collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3005/jpeg/13t.jpg) Fruits of a narrow-leaf spurge (Euphorbia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 12, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3012/jpeg/01t.jpg) Leaf cutter ant highway across a sandy road in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 24, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2378/jpeg/12t.jpg) Black dots of fruiting structures of a fungus Ophiodothella vaccinii on leaves of farkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 9, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3369/jpeg/26t.jpg) Young leaves of a small tree of persimmon(?) in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 24, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2999/jpeg/21t.jpg) Narrow-leaf water-primrose (Ludwigia octovalvis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2892/jpeg/07t.jpg) Powdery mint mildew caused by fungus Neoerysiphe galeopsidis on henbit leaves in TAMU Holistic Garden in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, March 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2999/jpeg/22t.jpg) Blooming narrow-leaf water-primrose (Ludwigia octovalvis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3012/jpeg/13t.jpg) Distorted leaves of common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) with galls caused by eriophyid mites in David E. Schob Nature Preserve at 906 Ashburn Street. College Station, Texas, August 25, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3186/jpeg/23t.jpg) Leaves of jumpseed (knotweed, Persicaria virginiana) on black background with some rust fungus on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 3, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3005/jpeg/10t.jpg) Red and black aphids on a plant of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 12, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1457/jpeg/27t.jpg) Black and red aphids on a leaf of frostweed in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 15, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2893/jpeg/09t.jpg) Wart disease caused by fungus Synchytrium geranii (Chytrids) on leaves of crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) in David E. Schob Nature Preserve at 906 Ashburn Street. College Station, Texas, March 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2997/jpeg/05t.jpg) Young leaves of sycamore in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 1, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2999/jpeg/13t.jpg) Leaves of sumpweed (Iva annua) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3012/jpeg/02t.jpg) Black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei in mature stage in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 24, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3006/jpeg/04t.jpg) Hornworm of Banded Sphinx Moth (Eumorpha fasciatus) with a leaf of water-primrose (Ludwigia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 12, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2737/jpeg/19t.jpg) White corticioid fungus around a damaged spot on a Mexican plum tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2737/jpeg/18t.jpg) White crust fungus around a damaged spot on a Mexican plum tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2951/jpeg/32t.jpg) Leaves of hickory with black spots and holes caused by insects(?) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 2, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2997/jpeg/16t.jpg) Leaves of water primrose (Ludwigia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 1, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3011/jpeg/14t.jpg) Black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 21, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/01t.jpg) Black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3006/jpeg/02t.jpg) Hornworm of Banded Sphinx Moth (Eumorpha fasciatus) munching a leaf of water-primrose (Ludwigia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 12, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3006/jpeg/03t.jpg) Hornworm of Banded Sphinx Moth (Eumorpha fasciatus) eating a leaf of water-primrose (Ludwigia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 12, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2889/jpeg/28t.jpg) Gall on roots of crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) caused by fungus Synchytrium geranii (Chytrids) taken from Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 23, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2737/jpeg/17t.jpg) White corticioid (crust) fungus around a damaged spot on a Mexican plum tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2889/jpeg/24t.jpg) Wart disease (false rust) caused by fungus Synchytrium geranii (Chytrids) on crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) near the creek in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 23, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/07t.jpg) Circular cluster of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3011/jpeg/15t.jpg) Upper view of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 21, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3011/jpeg/16t.jpg) Irregular rosette of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 21, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3212/jpeg/28t.jpg) Brown leaf of mustang grape and yellow leaf of muscadine grape on the ground after recent rains in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 19, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2557/jpeg/09t.jpg) Fungus Ophiodothella vaccinii on infected leaves of farkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3012/jpeg/32t.jpg) Flowers and leaves of bladderpod (Glottidium vesicarium, Sesbania vesicaria) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 26, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3416/jpeg/07t.jpg) Dry leaves of black cherry(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 13, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3361/jpeg/33t.jpg) Young leaves of flame leaf sumac in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 10, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2889/jpeg/27t.jpg) Close-up of wart disease (false rust) caused by fungus Synchytrium geranii (Chytrids) on crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) taken from Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 23, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2889/jpeg/26t.jpg) Plant of crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) with wart disease (false rust) caused by fungus Synchytrium geranii (Chytrids) taken from Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 23, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2557/jpeg/11t.jpg) Conidiomata of fungus Ophiodothella vaccinii on infected leaves of farkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/09t.jpg) Grayish yellow, fan-shaped caps of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/08t.jpg) Upper view of a circular cluster of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/12t.jpg) Irregular rosette from the same branched stem of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/13t.jpg) Side view of a circular cluster of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2378/jpeg/07t.jpg) Some black Discomycetes fungus on porous crust fungus on a fallen oak in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 9, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3365/jpeg/15t.jpg) Young leaves of black cherry in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 16, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3361/jpeg/27t.jpg) Young leaves of black cherry in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 10, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3358/jpeg/14t.jpg) Leaves of rough-leaf dogwood (Cornus drummondii) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 7, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3122/jpeg/06t.jpg) Wart disease (false rust) caused by fungus Synchytrium geranii (Chytrids) on crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 30, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3212/jpeg/29t.jpg) Yellow leaves of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with a rust fungus Coleosporium viguierae(?) on a pipeline right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 19, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3186/jpeg/22t.jpg) Plants of jumpseed (knotweed, Persicaria virginiana) on floodplain with yellowing caused by some fungus on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 3, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/14t.jpg) Fleshy, grayish yellow, fan-shaped caps of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/11t.jpg) Smooth pore surface bruising brown or black when touched of a polypore mushroom Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2557/jpeg/10t.jpg) Blister-like fruiting structures of fungus Ophiodothella vaccinii on infected leaves of farkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3212/jpeg/30t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with yellow and brown leaves with a rust fungus Coleosporium viguierae(?) on a pipeline right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 19, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3010/jpeg/15t.jpg) Close-up of fleshy, grayish yellow, fan-shaped caps of black-staining polypore mushrooms Meripilus sumstinei at the base of dry Mexican plum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2878/jpeg/03t.jpg) Basal leaf of stemless evening primrose (Oenothera triloba) with purple spots of spring dieback caused by a fungus Septoria oenotherae near Flag Pond on Lake Somerville Trailway near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 10, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2704/jpeg/18t.jpg) Oak leaf anthracnose (leaf spot fungus, Dicarpella dryina, Tubakia dryina) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
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