These fruit
represent the first infection of PPV in Spain, June 1984. Infected
plum fruit can be severely deformed. Such deformed fruit has no
commercial value.
'Red
Beaut' Japanese Plum, Sevilla, Spain (M. Cambria)
Healthy fruit
on the left and PPV infected fruit on the right. Both may occur on
the same tree. After a few years, once the virus has spread throughout
the tree, all the fruit become infected.
'Red
Beaut' Japanese Plum, Seville, Spain (M. Cambria)
