Question: Can you help me identify this plant found in Ravenna,MI? I have been scouring the web with no luck.
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Can you help me identify this plant found in Ravenna,MI? I have been scouring the web with no luck.
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Dear jmarjor01, the structure you have photographed is a gall, and it is occurring on what is most likely Salix humilis (prairie willow). The galls are a growth created by an insect larvae living within the plant tissue. Beautiful photograph.
