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
Abundance:
Shape:
Season: Summer
Related:
Alignment: integral
Walls: spongy
Location: bud, stem
Form: abrupt swelling
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Possible Range:i
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Gallformers ID Notes

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: (2023) Gallformers ID Notes©


Further Information:
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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:
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