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Tomato > Fruit > Misshapen or distorted fruit
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Catface
Abiotic
- Affects only fruit
- Tomatoes tend to be more flat than round
- Bands of dry beige corky scar tissue on the bottom of the fruit
- Fruit may be several separate lobes instead of one globe
- Fruit may contain cavities
- Common if temperatures are low for several days when plants are young
- More information on Catface
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Blossom End Rot
Abiotic
- Affects only fruit
- The bottom of the tomato turns tan and soft, then black, sunken, and rotten
- Fruit may look short or stumpy, not fully expanded due to rot
- Common when water levels vary from irrigation or drought followed by rain
- More information on Blossom End Rot
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Virus
Cucumber mosaic virus, tomato mosaic virus, tomato
spotted wilt virus and more
- Leaves are mottled with yellow and light green patches
- Leaves are misshapen; unusually long and thin like a shoestring or curled and deformed
- Fruit have yellow blotches or brown rings
- Plants are stunted even when neighboring plants look healthy and tall
- More information on Virus
