Get ya Galls out for the boys

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

What i think to be 'Mossy Willow Catkin Galls'.....here found on Salix Caprea (Goat Willow)

 

oh me likey lots:thumbup1:

[janey]

I've not come across this one that all much, Oak Artichoke Gall Andricus fecundator on Quercus robur. I wonder how it got it's common name...

[RobArb]

Er... Duh! It looks like an artichoke janey, did you not know that!

 

 

:lol:

 

Seriously though, it's a disfigurement of the acorn rather than the leaf isn't it? Seen a few in the local woods.

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[janey]

Er... Duh! It looks like an artichoke janey, did you not know that!

 

 

That's one of them funny posh fruits, innit? Don't get them fancy things here in chavcity Northolt.

 

 

 

(I was being ironic, in that it doesn't take a lot of imagination to see the obvious comparison with an edible thistle and a parasitised acorn )

[Fungus]

Pear Rust. Caused by the fungi - Gymnosporangium sabinae. Has gall like protrusions under the leaf. Fruit can be affected, and can also lead to branch canker.

 

The winter phase is a parasite of Juniperus communis causing branches and needles to die (see photo).

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[Fungus]

Oak Artichoke Gall Andricus fecundator on Quercus robur. I wonder how it got it's common name...

 

Janey,

In Dutch it is called Pineapple Gall.

[Fungus]

this was a funny little (big) gall i found on an Ulmus laevis today, weird huh?

 

Rob,

It gets even weirder once the insect has left the "building".

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[Fungus]

What about the galls of the Bedeguar Gall Wasp on Roses ?

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[Fungus]

Rhytisma acerinum ? Guignardia aesculi? Both Tar Spot of Maple and Chestnut Leaf Blotch infestations can be reduced by removing the fallen leaves from the site.

 

There also is a species of Rhytisma causing Tar Spot of Willow called R. salicinum (photo 1). And I depict Guignardia aesculi (photo 2), which has a different effect on the leaves of Aesculus then the larvae of the Horse-chestnut leaf miner (photo 3).

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[janey]

What about the galls of the Bedeguar Gall Wasp on Roses ?

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These are, rather bizarrely, also called Robin's pin cushion galls.

 

Since when has a small song bird had need of sewing utensils???