Pink mold, _Cephalothecium roseum_ Corda, usually occurs on nuts
infected with the scab fungus. The pink mold fungus apparently enters
the nuts through scab lesions on the shucks and continues to produce
masses of pink spores on shuck surfaces until late fall. The fungus
sometimes invades the kernel of thin-shelled pecan varieties causing
“pink rot” which is characterized by an oily appearance of the nut shell
and a rancid odor.
_Control._—Pink mold rarely occurs on the shucks of nuts in the absence
of scab disease. In areas where scab disease control is regularly
practiced pink mold is not a problem.