Image Number: 1570462

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Descriptor:
Fruit(s)
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Identifying Feature
Description:
Lemon fruit infected with Penicillium ulaiense (whisker mold) against a background of P. digitatum (green mold).  This is typical of the way whisker mold is seen in nature. It is rare to see whisker mold by itself. Large bald spot is where the fruit was touching another fruit in a packed carton. May 1992
Image type:
Laboratory

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Image location:
, Riverside

Subject

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Subphylum: Pezizomycotina
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Subclass: Eurotiomycetidae
Order: Eurotiales
Family: Trichocomaceae
Genus: Penicillium
Subject: Penicillium ulaiense H.M. Hsieh, H.J. Su & Tzean

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Citrus
Subject: Citrus x limon (L.) Osbeck
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Image uploaded:
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Image last updated:
Thursday, May 13, 2010