Unknown d-lactea-stem-swelling
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Detachable: integral
Color: pink, red, green
Texture: hairy, mottled
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Season: Summer
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Alignment: integral
Walls: thick
Location: stem
Form: tapered swelling
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Possible Range:i
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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.
Field Guide to the Herb and Bramble Gall Wasps of North America
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Presumed Diastrophus sp.
Wood beauty stem gall wasp
Host: Wood beauty (Drymocallis sp.).
Gall location: On the stem
Description: Globular galls similar to those of the cinquefoil stem spindle gall wasp (see page 39); galls of this species are often misidentified as that species. Range: Widespread, probably throughout the range of wood beauty in North America.
Galls have been reported on three wood beauty species (Drymocallis arguta, D. glandulosa, and D. lactea). The true inducer of these galls is entirely unknown but is presumed to be a gall wasp
”- Louis Nastasi, Charles Davis: (2022) Field Guide to the Herb and Bramble Gall Wasps of North America©
Further Information:
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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 d-lactea-stem-swelling on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
