Unknown s-lateriflorum-spongy-gall
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
Color: red, yellow, green
Texture: hairless
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Season: Summer
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Alignment: integral
Walls: spongy
Location: bud, stem
Form: abrupt swelling
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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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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A large gall with smooth skin that splits to reveal a spongy interior. Hairless, green with tinges of red, found on the buds of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum and S. lanceolatum.
Including this observation, which could not be added to the collected observations linked below:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104356424
- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) 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 s-lateriflorum-spongy-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
