• The cankers appear either on the main trunk, jorquettes or fan branches.
• The earliest symptom is the appearance of a greyish brown water soaked lesion on the outer bark.
• A reddish brown liquid oozes out from these lesions, which later dries up to form rusty deposits.
• The tissues beneath the outer lesion show reddish brown discoloration due to rotting.

Management

• It can be controlled in the initial stages by the excision of diseased bark followed by wound dressing with Bordeaux mixture or copper oxychloride paste.
• Wilted branches should be cut and removed.

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