Unknown p-tremuloides-club-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cecidomyiidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
Color: red, purple
Texture: hairless
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Season: Summer
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: abrupt swelling, stem club
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Gallformers ID Notes

An abrupt swelling of stems at the base of new growth. Hairless, dark red, thick-walled. Leaves branch off the gall and seem to grow normally. Observed in Minnesota in June. No larvae or chambers apparent but likely midge-induced based on comparable galls.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©


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Gallformers Contributors
2024
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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 p-tremuloides-club-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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