The spore mass is blended with mustard seed oil, and used as a salve against burns.

Under wet conditions, orange spore masses are produced and appear as visible droplets.

The center of the spot may appear pink from the spore masses which are being produced by the fungus.

At the center is the dark, brownish spore mass.

The head produced by the infected plant contains black spore masses in place of the grain.

Blue to bluish green spore masses will appear on the infected fruit, starting with the older lesions.

The spore mass is colored brown to rust.

Beneath the spore mass the tip is dark orange.

The spore mass is white and the spores are cylindrical in shape.

White to light brown when young, they later become covered with a white spore mass and then turn an ashy gray.