Ink painting/drawing of anthracnose lesions on an aubergine, peppers, tomatoes, peas and potatoes. The symptoms are caused by related fungi within the genus Colletotrichum.

I enjoyed painting last week’s Colletotrichum (anthracnose) fruit still-life so much that this week I did a vegetable one!

The painting shows a side view of a pile of overlapping vegetables containing one aubergine/eggplant, three pea pods attached to a single stem, two sweet/bell peppers (red and yellow), three potatoes, and five tomatoes attached to a single stem. All of the fruiting bodies have brown sunken lesions, with target-like concentric rings on the aubergine and peppers. The potatoes have grey/brown lesions on the surface, with brown dots representing both the lesion and sclerotia.

Top: scanned image

Bottom: photograph

Vegetables are a social construct!