PINK MOLD
Pink mold, Cephalothecium roseum Corda, usually occurs on nuts infected with the scab fungus. The pink mold fungus apparently enters the nuts through scab lesions on the shucks and continues to produce masses of pink spores on shuck surfaces until late fall. The fungus sometimes invades the kernel of thin-shelled pecan varieties causing “pink rot” which is characterized by an oily appearance of the nut shell and a rancid odor.
Control.—Pink mold rarely occurs on the shucks of nuts in the absence of scab disease. In areas where scab disease control is regularly practiced pink mold is not a problem.