Strawberries

What symptoms do you see?

Whole plants

• Plants are wilting and collapsing in a young planting
• Plants are wilting and collapsing in an older planting

Leaves and stems

• Leaves and stems are unusually colored, spotted, or necrotic
• Leaves are curled, rolled, or crinkled
• Leaves have a white powder on the underside
• Stems are covered with spittle
• Leaf petioles have galls

Flowers

• Buds are cut just prior to flowering
• Flowers have a blackened center or are entirely brown
• Flower petals are greenish, and fruit never ripen

Fruit

• Fruit is deformed or nubby at the tips
• Fruit is small, seedy, and has a bronze cast
• Fruit is rotting or discolored prior to harvest
• Fruit or fruit stems are covered with a white powder 
• Fruit is physically damaged (chewed, holes, splitting, etc.)
• Fruit may look fine at picking, but develop symptoms later in the basket. Alternatively, fruit has a soft, bruised appearance on shoulders, often only on one side; fruit looks “pulpy” or is liquefying; fruit may have small white fruit fly larvae inside.