Dr. Phyto

cherimoya

Annona cherimola

Diseases & pests on this plant

• longtailed mealybugPseudococcus longispinus

  White cottony masses with long fluffy tails on twigs and fruit, copious honeydew, sooty mould blackening leaves, distorted fruit when calyx end infested.

• anthracnoseColletotrichum gloeosporioides

  Dark brown to black sunken spots on leaves often with concentric rings, spots expand + coalesce into irregular blotches, severely infected leaves drop, branch dieback in heavy attacks, pink-orange spore masses produced on lesions in moist conditions.

• annona seed borerBephratelloides cubensis
• red-banded thripsSelenothrips rubrocinctus