How Plant Food is Not the Same as Plant Fertilizer Greenway Biotech Greenway Biotech, Inc. Pea Eggplant Greta's Family Gardens A 61 year old plant mycologist from India has become the first person in the world to contract a fungal disease caused by a plant pathogen. The man was diagnosed with Chondrostereum purpureum, the Spot the differences! Philodendron Sodiroi (left) vs. Sodirini (right). When both of these plants are juvenile it is impossible to tell the difference but as they mature it becomes quite obvious!