Name that plant
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Date Photo Taken
08 / 19 / 2013
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Season Photo Was Taken
Summer
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Region Photo Was Taken
Southeast
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City
Athens
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State
Georgia
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Posted by
athens.project
Notes:
seeÊhttp://www.walterreeves.com/name-that-plant/mystery-fruit/ Dr. Robert Wyatt, retire UGA Professor of Botany & Ecology, identifies the mystery ‘fruit’ as a gall! Some thought it a Bradford pear fruit, but as the picture shows, they are much smaller… Dr. Wyatt: “I think that they are oak galls, probably caused by Cynipid wasps. When I sectioned one it had none of the internal structure of a fruit such as a pome (i.e., a fruit like an apple or a pear). Moreover, the external surface lacked any evidence of floral partsÑnot even a stalk.
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