While sneaking up on a juvenile Green woodpecker at Cosmeston, I spotted these lovely examples of Alder tongue (Taphrina alni).
I’ve covered these intriguing galls in a previous blog post so, just briefly, they’re the result of a fungus that chemically alters its host. One of Nature’s oddities!
Another first for me, having never even heard of these let alone seen them. What wonderful things happen in Nature! Almost as if a violin were trying to make its own neck…
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I like that image you’ve spun, thanks! 🙂
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