Galls (?) on Ashe Juniper (Juniperus ashei)
by Bob Harms (
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The terminal yellowish
scales enveloping a reddish-brown-tipped structure (pictured below) of
January branchlets of J. ashei were studied in the hope that they
represented ovulate cones. Instead, the brown-tipped structured was
discovered to be a loose fusion of two scales containing a bright orange
larva.
The images were scanned directly from branchlets collected in
mid January, 2000.
Three views of the same gall structure surrounded by ternate scales.
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Scales removed to reveal the the gall-containing scale shell.
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