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Originally Posted by PeterJL  So here's my puzzler which a lady from Germany sent me to ID photographed in the Norfolk Dunes last year:
Are the lumps on the stems galls? What on earth is it - the leaves don't seem to fit anything I regularly see. |
I saw a lot of this with the same gall last week, also on the Norfolk coast. The composite is
Hieracium umbellatum, a variant almost without leaf toothing, but I agree looking very weird.
The gall should be nameable, but my books on these are at home and currently I am still at work. I'll see if I can get a name tonight, if nobody else provides it in the meantime.
I was at Holme next the Sea, looking for a lichen (that I later found is not recorded from there anyway - homework is always better
before the field trip), and almost all the
H. umbellatum I saw was affected by the gall.
Alan