Symptoms Checklist
  • Infection of bananas with BBTV is diagnosed by identifying symptoms of diseased plants or by submitting a banana leaf sample for virus testing
Banana Bunchy Top Disease - Symptoms Checklist
  Bunchy Stunted J-hooks Morse code Streaking Yellow margins Wavy margins Deformed
Leaves
Petioles      
     
Fruits  
         
Plants  
         
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Click on the photo below to see other banana diseases which may resemble bunchy top and to see native Hawaiian banana varieties whose growth habit or morphology resembles symptoms of BBTD.
Photographs are courtesy of the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii Department of Agriculture


Maintained by Scot Nelson: snelson@hawaii.edu
Last Revised on September 12, 2006