Mildew ery mildew is an airborne fungal disease. African violets and Begonias are particularly succeptible.
SWINE flu may get the headlines; but white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that shows as a powdery pattern on the face, wings and legs of bats, is moving far more swiftly across America.
Another worry is that the red swamp invader has helped unleash a deadly fungal disease on native crayfish populations around Europe—a plague to which it is, itself, resistant.
Foliage is leathery, mid-green and large, with a good resistance to fungal diseases.
That matters because higher rainfall in recent years has increased the prevalence of “black pod”, a fungal disease which lowers cocoa yields.
In all cases with partially opaque sinus the fungal disease presented as an irregular high density soft tissue mass inside the air-filled sinus with mucosal thickening.