Plum Pockets

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A number of stone fruit diseases are caused by fungi similar to the leaf curl fungus. In the northeastern United States, the most important disease affecting American-type plums is known as plum pockets, or bladder plum. It is caused by Taphrina pruni. This fungus occurs on wild or abandoned plum trees and is rare.

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