Ken Gonyo sent this photo of a sweet, fresh white gall on coastalplain staggerbush (Lyonia fruticosa) at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. This gall is caused by a fungus and turns red as it matures to be yet another…
Category: galls
Christmas ornament cecidology
This gorgeous gall was like a Christmas ornament on the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area scrub. This gall (or cecidia) on Faey's palafoxia (Palafoxia faeyi) was caused by a gall-making midge (Asphondylia sp.). Note the exit hole below ... A…
Galled again!
Jane Schnee, who purchased a beautiful bit of scrub along Barber Street in Sebastian for conservation, took Judy Gersony, Gayle Lafferty, and me for a Saturday scrub stroll. We saw scrub jays and more, including an ear-like gall growing on…
Brownhead thinks that it’s an Acorn
At a glance, a person - or a young scrub jay - might think that the sphere pictured above was an acorn. It is a gall on a myrtle oak (Quercus myrtifolia). For a wonderful photo of a juvenile scrub…
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