Unknown q-chrysolepis-cotton-candy-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Hosts: Quercus chrysolepis
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red
Texture: woolly, hairy, succulent
Abundance: occasional
Shape: globular
Season: Summer
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Walls:
Location: bud, stem
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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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.
Plant Galls of the Western United States
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Unknown #19
Cotton-candy gall wasp
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Hosts: Quercus chrysolepis
These monothalamous galls form in the axillary buds of canyon live oak in June. The galls stand out from amid the glossy, dark green foliage with their covering of densely packed and intertwined, long, bright pink, extremely thin, cotton-like mass of slightly sticky hairs.
Range: central Sierra Nevada, CA
”- Russo, Ronald A. : (2021) Plant Galls of the Western United States©
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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-chrysolepis-cotton-candy-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
