Beech – Sooty Mold
Scorias spongiosa
Beech – Sooty Mold Signs & Symptoms
![Close-up of fungal growth](https://extension.umaine.edu/ipm/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2013/10/aP1015560-300x225.jpg)
Beech – Sooty Mold Pathogen
- Close-up of pseudothecia and a pycnidium in the fungal mass
- Pseudothecium (left) and pycnidium (right)
- Apical tip of pycnidium
- Asci and ascospores
- Ascus and septate ascospores (left & middle), neck of pycnidium with single-celled conidia (right)