Unknown q-phellos-fletching-bud-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: detachable
Color: pink, red, green
Texture: hairy, hairless
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Shape:
Season: Spring
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Alignment:
Walls: thick
Location: bud
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Gallformers ID Notes

A small bud gall on Quercus phellos in spring, green with pink-red tips, covered sparsely in stellate hairs. The structure of the gall is striking and unique, with an almond-shaped central larval cell surrounded by three evenly spaced flared wings, swept up above the tip of gall. Observed in April in North Carolina.

- 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-phellos-fletching-bud-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
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