Common Diseases of Tea in Kenya

Abstract

Armillaria root rot, Hypoxylon wood and Stem canker are the common disease problems in both small and large scale tea farms in the East and West of the rift valley.: On mature and senescent (old) leaves Brown to grey round to oval lesions marked with concentric zonation which form black fructifications (bigger than those of brown blight) in concentric rings on the upper surface of the lesions.