Typically, a rapidly enlarging purplish or black patch appears on the upper leaf surface, with diffuse and radiating strands of the fungus sometimes just visible..Leaf tissues may turn yellow around the spots and the leaf often drops, even though other parts are as yet unaffected. At other times, the yellow colour does not appear, but infected leaves still drop.Sometimes, the spots remain relatively small and the leaf does not drop. Small, black, scabby lesions may also appear on young stems