Unknown q-velutina-melon-bud-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Quercus velutina
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink
Texture: hairy
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Season: Spring
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Location: bud
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Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
Cynipid Galls of the Chicago Area
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Undescribed species
Melon-shaped, with longitudinal grooves like some types of cantaloupe, 3-4 mm, rose-pink, with a small tuft of hairs at the apex. On Q velutina. Found but once-on May 1. Not reared.
”- LH Weld: (1928) Cynipid Galls of the Chicago Area©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57505981#page/189/mode/1up
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Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value q-velutina-melon-bud-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
