Plum pox show no symptoms on leaves or fruit. Not all infection in "Prunus" are characterized by a ring symptom on leaves. Several cultivars show yellowing line patterns and blotches, or necrotic ring symptoms on expanded leaves. Leaf distortion has also been observed. Infected fruit can develop yellow rings or blotches, or brown rings, and some plum and apricot fruit can be severely deformed and bumpy. The seed of many infected apricots and some plums show rings. Many non-"Prunus" species, in at least nine plant families, have been infected artificially with one or more strains of the plum pox virus, and in
Plum-throated cotinga Plum-throated cotinga The plum-throated cotinga ("Cotinga maynana") is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the plum-throated cotinga in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in Maynas Province, Peru. He used the French name "Le cotinga des Mayas" and the Latin "Cotinga Maynanensis". Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and