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Diseases of Butterfly Flower, Poorman's Orchid
(Schizanthus × wisetonensis hort.)

Margery Daughtrey, collator (last update 5/25/00)

BACTERIAL DISEASES

Bacterial fasciation
Rhodococcus fascians (Tilford 1936) Goodfellow 1984, comb. nov.
Bacterial soft rot
Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora (Jones 1901) Bergey
    et al. 1923
= Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum (Jones
    1901) Hauben et al. 1999, comb. nov.
Crown gall
Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith and Townsend 1907) Conn 1942

FUNGAL DISEASES

Anthracnose
Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Penz. & Sacc. In Penz.
Ascochyta leaf spot
Ascochyta sp.
Botrytis blight
Botrytis cinerea Pers.:Fr.
Phytophthora root rot
Phytophthora cactorum (Lebert & Cohn) J. Schröt.
P. cinnamomi Rands
P. cryptogea Pethybr. & Lafferty
Rhizoctonia root and crown rot
Rhizoctonia solani Kühn

NEMATODES, PARASITIC

Foliar nematode
Aphelenchoides sp.
Root-knot nematode
Meloidogyne javanica (Treub) Chitwood

VIRAL AND VIROID DISEASES

Impatiens necrotic spot
genus Tospovirus, Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV)
Tomato spotted wilt
genus Tospovirus, Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV)

PHYTOPLASMAL DISEASES

Aster yellows
Aster yellows phytoplasma