I painted BBTV last year, but received feedback that I the colouration could have better represented the typical symptoms. For this week’s painting, I traced the outline of the original, scanned it, printed a copy, then re-painted the leaves.

Top: bbtv showing yellow leaf margins and necrotic areas.

Bottom: scanned outline (in case you would like to colour your own)

Ink painting/drawing of banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) disease symptoms.

Pop-art style picture of a simplified banana plant. The new leaves at the top of the plant are narrower and flatter than normal, causing them to appear bunched together. The leaf margins are wavy and chlorotic (yellow), with brown necrotic regions.