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Tiny light brown seed attached to rose leaf with web-like white fluff, holding it flat. On close inspection it has longitudinal ridges and tiny ribs between them.
Temperate gardens, on rose bush.
Here associated with apparent fungal disease.
Spotted on Nov 14, 2012
Submitted on Nov 14, 2012
4 Comments
That is possible, but it looked like it was done deliberately. But hey, I'm not expert on insects or plants, I'm a boring human expert :) We shall call it a seed.
I think the leaf was wet from the last rain and the feathery wing of the seed stuck to it then dried out.
It does look like a plant seed, but then why would it be webbed flat to a leaf? Could something have injected micro eggs into it and leave it as food?
This looks like a plant seed.