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.
Gallformers ID Notes
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Round patches of raised or domed bark scattered along the trunk of a hackberry tree. Emergence holes suggest that either the inducing organism (or at least its parasitoids) are insects. Observed in May in Texas, though emergence holes indicate that the active season of the inducer was earlier.
Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value c-reticulata-raised-bark-gall on iNaturalist. You can view them here: