Thread: Is this a Spruce staminate cone?
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Old 12-04-2010, 10:54 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
Sean Houtman[_2_] Sean Houtman[_2_] is offline
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Default Is this a Spruce staminate cone?
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 20:35:21 -0700 (PDT), Gnarlodious
wrote:
Source is a Colorado Blue Spruce located in Santa Fe.


http://etc.Gnarlodious.com/Images/Pictures/Spruce1.jpg
http://etc.Gnarlodious.com/Images/Pictures/Spruce2.jpg
http://etc.Gnarlodious.com/Images/Pictures/Spruce3.jpg


Is this an expired pollenator cone? I searched all over the internet
but found no example of this type of cone. These are a little longer
than 1cm long not including the spines.


It looks like a Cooley Spruce Gall. They are caused by adelgids.

Sean

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