Beech – Sooty Mold
Scorias spongiosa
Beech – Sooty Mold Signs & Symptoms

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)