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By Muskrat

London, United Kingdom Gb

I have a few oak & chestnut trees grown from the seeds,two or so yrs old.On one of the chestnuts I have found fairly tough,clusters of balls on the underside of the leaves.They are about half a cm across & seem to hold a liquid.Never seen anything like it before.Any ideas what they could be?
Patricia.




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sounds like a gall. it is a wound response to sap sucking insects.

3 May, 2010

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