Dryocosmus quercuslaurifoliae (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Dryocosmus
Detachable: integral
Color: red, green, purple
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Shape: sphere
Season: Spring
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Alignment:
Walls: thin
Location: upper leaf, lower leaf, between leaf veins
Form:
Cells: free-rolling
Possible Range:i
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Diplolepis laurifoliae
Spathegaster quercus laurifoliae
Our 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.
On the CYNIPIDOUS GALLS of Florida (1881)
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Spathegaster q. laurifoliae n. sp.
The Cherry Stone Leaf Gall
This popularly designates a unique gall that appears early in February and March, on the tender new leaves--frequently three on a leaf.
Galls.--Green, globular, hollow galls, growing through the leafy expansion of the newly formed leaf, projecting about equally from the upper and on the under surface of the leaf, the size of a cherry stone and when removed not unlike it in shape, containing a yellowish, slightly elongated kernel, which rolls freely about. Length .20 to .25 inch, .15 or more through.
”- William Ashmead: (1881) On the CYNIPIDOUS GALLS of Florida (1881)©
Reference: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32798#page/311/mode/1up
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