Venturia carpophila

Venturia carpophila is a species of fungus in the family Venturiaceae. A plant pathogen, it causes freckle, black spot, peach scab or black scab of peach. It has a cosmopolitan distribution. The species was described as new to science in 1961 by the Australian mycologist Eileen E. Fisher.^[1]

Venturia carpophila
Elberta peaches damaged by Venturia carpophila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Venturiaceae
Genus:	Venturia
Species:	V. carpophila
Binomial name
Venturia carpophila E.E.Fisher (1961)
Synonyms
Cladosporium carpophilum Fusicladium amygdali Ducomet (1907) Fusicladium carpophilum (Thum.) Oudem. (1900) Fusicladium pruni Ducomet (1907) Fusicladosporium carpophilum Megacladosporium carpophilum (Thum.) Viennot-Bourg. (1949) Thelephora vorticosa