Venturia cerasi Aderh.
(Cherry Scab - causative organism)

Interactions where Venturia cerasi is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph (small dark green, velvety)		small dark green, velvety colony of Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages live fruit			Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia cerasi/	Venturia cerasi	cherry scab (causative organism)		small dark green, velvety	colony	Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus/	Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry		live	fruit
Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph (small dark green, velvety)		small dark green, velvety colony of Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages live leaf			Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia cerasi/	Venturia cerasi	cherry scab (causative organism)		small dark green, velvety	colony	Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus/	Prunus	plums, cherries and laurels, planted cherry		live	leaf		Minor
Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph (small dark green, velvety)		small dark green, velvety colony of Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages live fruit			Prunus avium cv	Ornamental Cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia cerasi/	Venturia cerasi	cherry scab (causative organism)		small dark green, velvety	colony	Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus avium cv/	Prunus avium cv	ornamental cherry		live	fruit
Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph (small dark green, velvety)		small dark green, velvety colony of Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages live leaf			Prunus avium cv	Ornamental Cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia cerasi/	Venturia cerasi	cherry scab (causative organism)		small dark green, velvety	colony	Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus avium cv/	Prunus avium cv	ornamental cherry		live	leaf		Minor
Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph		colony of Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages fruit			Prunus cerasus	Dwarf Cherry, Sour Cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia cerasi/	Venturia cerasi	cherry scab (causative organism)			colony	Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus cerasus/	Prunus cerasus	dwarf cherry, sour cherry			fruit
Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph		colony of Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages leaf			Prunus cerasus	Dwarf Cherry, Sour Cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia cerasi/	Venturia cerasi	cherry scab (causative organism)			colony	Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus cerasus/	Prunus cerasus	dwarf cherry, sour cherry			leaf
Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph		colony of Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages young twig			Prunus cerasus	Dwarf Cherry, Sour Cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia cerasi/	Venturia cerasi	cherry scab (causative organism)			colony	Fusicladium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus cerasus/	Prunus cerasus	dwarf cherry, sour cherry		young	twig
pseudothecium (immersed)		immersed pseudothecium is saprobic on dead, fallen, overwintered leaf			Prunus cerasus	Dwarf Cherry, Sour Cherry	Rosales: Rosaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia cerasi/	Venturia cerasi	cherry scab (causative organism)		immersed		pseudothecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Prunus cerasus/	Prunus cerasus	dwarf cherry, sour cherry		dead, fallen, overwintered	leaf

Author & Year	Title	Source
Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants	Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

Venturia cerasi (Cherry Scab - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Venturia cerasi (Cherry Scab - causative organism) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Venturia cerasi (Cherry Scab - causative organism)
Genus	Venturia (Bot.) (scabs)
Family	VENTURIACEAE (a family of ascomycetes)
Order	VENTURIALES (an order of fungi)
Subclass	PLEOSPOROMYCETIDAE (a subclass of ascomycetes)
Class	DOTHIDEOMYCETES (a class of ascomycetes)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Venturia cerasi is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ascomycota)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Venturia cerasi (Cherry Scab - causative organism)

Venturia cerasi (Cherry Scab - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Venturia (Bot.)
(scabs)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Venturia cerasi (Cherry Scab - causative organism):

Venturia (Bot.)
(scabs)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

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