• Small, rough, black, circular lesions on their skin
• Fruits after keeping in cold storage.
• Affected fruits rot due to secondary infection of the lesions
• Ascus is slightly spatulate in shape
• Ascospores are 2-celled, yellowish with the upper cell shorter and sowewhat wider than the lower cell, oval shaped
• low temperatures of 4 and 8°C favours for the development of disease.

• Infected spurs and cankers should be pruned during summer.
• Affected fruits whether on trees or fallen on the ground should be collected and buried in the soil.
• Diseased mummies should be ploughed into the soil.

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