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 pocke

Plum pockets, a disease caused by the fungus Taphrina communis, occurs on wild and cultivated plums. However, plum pockets is rarely considered a serious threat or economically important. © 2012 R

Pocket plum is a fungal infection of the young fruits of plums, damsons and some ornamental species, causing them to develop abnormally, without stones. © The Royal Horticultural Society 2011 / RH

Pocket plum is caused by fungi, which are infecting the plums shortly before or during blooming. The disease is induced by the fungus Taphrina pruni. The INTERREG IIIA project "Nature in the garden