Its leaves dropped prematurely and its lovely pink flowers made but a feeble display.

With the ink disease, the leaves turn yellow and later fall off; the fruits remain small, and the nuts prematurely drop out of the burrs.

The affected fruit will often drop prematurely.

These leaves may drop prematurely and as with bacterial spot can then cause sunscald.

Most internally damaged fruit (through burrowing into the fruit) drops prematurely.

Heavily mined leaves may drop prematurely.

The name comes from the rains helping to ripen mangoes, which prevents the mangoes from prematurely dropping from trees and, hence, are crucial for managing mango harvests.

But the most pernicious toll may be the silent, steady one of leaf after dead leaf prematurely dropping to the ground.

Leaf stalks may be misshapen, leaf stalks appear short, flowers may drop prematurely and parts of the plant may die back.

These become wrinkled and red, dropping prematurely.