Brooks fruit spot
Disease
Brooks fruit spot
Mycosphaerella pomi (Pass.) Lindau
Distribution: Occurs throughout the northeastern and mid-Atlantic US and has been reported in Canada.
Appears as irregular, slightly sunken dark green lesions on immature fruit. On red-skinned varieties, fully developed lesions are dark red to purple and are generally no larger than 10 mm in diameter (A). On lighter-skinned varieties, lesions turn dark green. Brooks fruit spot does not cause significant browning of the flesh beneath the lesion (B).