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Small, colourful cups on underside of fallen oak leaf. Smallest are 1mm or less in diameter and very flat. Largest are 3mm in diameter and up to 3mm high
oak tree in back yard
Is this a Neuroterus spp.?
Also good fits from bugguide:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/447039
http://bugguide.net/node/view/482533
this organism also resembles oak galls from this page:
http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/...
I thought of fungus too but I have not been able to find a fungus description resembling this. One of the things which suggest the wasp gall was that each cup has a centered bump at the point of attachment which resembles those of jumping galls in the link I posted and also here:
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r162742...
Having now looked at many images of jumping oak galls I do agree that my picture only resembles a very few. I am happy to change this to a fungus if we can find a good candidate
Spotted on Aug 4, 2011
Submitted on Aug 4, 2011
