 Infected trees are not killed or severely inhibited.CYMV has only been found in Sierra Leone where it primarily infects the cacao tree "Theobroma cacao".However, it can experimentally infect a number of other dicots including "Chenopodium amaranticolor", "Chenopodium quinoa", "Tetragonia expansa", "Vinca rosea", "Nicotiana clevelandii", and "Nicandra physalodes".