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mysterious balls on dog rose







playtime8978
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:01 pm   Post subject: mysterious balls on dog rose


i was wondering if anyone could solve a mystery for me pleasssse, there has to be an answer somewhere. I have in my garden a wild rose that rooted itself and we have grown rather fond of and about two weeks ago whilst admiring it i noticed what looks like small red balls that have formed on the leaves spread across some of the branches, my husband picked one off and looked at it and although it doesn't appear to be a parasite im not convinced they look very like round miniature rose hips yet i cant see how this would be happening from the leaves i am sure i could get a photo soon if it would help anyone identify the cause

thank you for taking time reading this and i look forward to finding out the cause of this mystery

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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:12 pm   Post subject:


It looks like a type of gall that is called a dog rose pea gall.

http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk/galls%20p1.html

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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:32 pm   Post subject:


thank you so much for your help that looks exactly like what we have and yuck lol at least i know i havent got a crazy plant thats trying to grow rosehips from its leaves lol thank you again


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