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sooty mold

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sooty mold
n.
1. A blackish growth produced by fungi of the genus Capnodium, which grows in the droppings of aphids on plants.
2. Any of the fungi that produce such growth.


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Either you actually see them or you observe their cast-off skins (seen as small white bits of matter) or the shiny, sticky "honeydew' is seen, or as a black sooty mold when a particular fungus colonizes the sugar-rich honeydew.
The bugs sit underneath leaves sucking out all the nutrients and excreting honeydew that produces a sooty mold.
Early this summer I noticed that certain shoots, planted last fall, had suddenly turned black, apparently the victim of sooty mold fungus.
 
 
 
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