Unknown q-montana-fuzzy-sphere-cluster (agamic)

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: red, white
Texture: pubescent, hairy
Abundance:
Shape: globular, sphere, cluster
Season: Fall
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Alignment:
Walls:
Location: lower leaf, leaf midrib
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Gallformers ID Notes

Clusters of several near-spherical galls emerging from the lower (or occasionally upper) midrib of Quercus montana in September and October in Pennsylvania. They differ from Andricus dimorphus in their uniform pubescence and regular spherical shape lacking a blunt, hairless outer face. They tend to occur in smaller numbers and sparser arrangements but can also be found in clusters of more than 20. They are initially white but often become longitudinally streaked with pink, sometimes more pink than white later in the season. They drop in late September and October, leaving small, round scars on the midrib.

Similar galls have been observed in North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, and possibly DC. A similar gall has been observed on Quercus muehlenbergii in Ohio in August and September.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2023) Gallformers ID Notes©


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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-montana-fuzzy-sphere-cluster on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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