 "C. gloeosporioides" is a hemibiotroph, meaning it lives part way between the biotrophic and saprophytic lifestyles.The pathogen prefers a living host, but once the host tissue dies, or the pathogen finds itself surviving in the soil without a host, it can switch to a saprophytic lifestyle and feed off of dead plant material.Under correct environmental conditions, if a "C. gloeosporioides" conidium lands upon a susceptible host it will first produce an appressorium.