Amphibolips mexican-red-small-oak-apple (agamic)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Amphibolips
Hosts: Quercus castanea
Detachable: detachable
Color: brown, green, tan
Texture: hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Fall, Winter
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Alignment: erect
Walls: thick, radiating-fibers
Location: bud
Form:
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Image by Adam Kranz © Public Domain / CC0
Image by Adam Kranz © Public Domain / CC0
Image by Adam Kranz © Public Domain / CC0Our 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 small green globular oak apple similar to agamic galls like Amphibolips cookii on North American oaks, but smaller in size, like this undescribed gall. Fresh but easily removed from the plant in December in Queretaro, Mexico.
”- 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 mexican-red-small-oak-apple on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
