Tiny Black Spots On Indoor Plants

Although gnats do not feed on plant leaves they multiply and get into the soil and harm the plant s roots.

Tiny black spots on indoor plants.

The black spots on houseplants are a common fungal disease. It can attack any plant with fleshy leaves and stems if the conditions are right. The deep purple triangular shaped foliage looks almost black. If you want to grow a black indoor plant you re absolutely going to adore the purple shamrock.

As the sap feeding colony grows sooty mold. Look for tiny black irregular spots which group near the ends of leaves and along veins. Remove and destroy the affected houseplant as the fungi thrive on decaying plant matter. They do not appear to have anything under them.

Black spot leaf disease shows itself first with black spots appearing on the leaf then with rings of yellow as the spots grow until the leaf turns entirely yellow and then falls off. The tiny black bugs on plants are normally either fungus gnats aphids or spider mites. Diplocarpon rosae or black spot fungus isn t just a disease of roses. The black spots do rub off and are very small.

Find gnats crawling in the soil or hovering above the surface and around the leaves. Sooty mold sooty molds often start as small spots on houseplants feeding on those tiny droplets of honeydew produced by a few sap feeding pests. Leaf spots fungal leaf spots may include small brown spots with yellow margins or black spotting.