Unknown q-virginiana-bead-gall

The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Unknown | Genus: Unknown
Detachable: integral
Color: brown, gray
Texture: hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
Related:
Alignment: erect
Walls:
Location: upper leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells:
Possible Range:i
Common Name(s):
Synonymy:

Gallformers ID Notes

Small, hairless bead galls scattered across the upper surface of a leaf of Quercus virginiana. Small egress holes on the underside suggest wasps may be involved but they may or may not be the inducers of the galls. Old galls observed in Florida in June.

- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©


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Gallformers Contributors
2024
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