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Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

For spotting #3200 I choose this bizarre growth, about 1cm wide, I spotted on a leaf. I've never seen anything like it, not sure what it is, new plantlet? insect gall? eggs?

Habitat:

rainforest, 1000m

Notes:

Spotted in Gunung Merapi national park.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)

Thanks Sukanya and Jolly. If you have any spottings with examples Jolly, I'd love to see them.
Dan, I'm also inclined that it is a plantlet because it grew after the broken part of the leaf. We have a few other plants here that exhibit this characteristic.
Very pretty. Very interesting. Very intriguing. A bit bizarre. Totally love it...whatever it is! :)
My name is guess, guess what... ;-)... Only a very shy guess from my not-really-much-about-flora-part...
Thanks bayucca for chiming in. I just showed it to a fellow horticulturist friend. She's not sure but she was thinking maybe a new plantlet, growing on the main vein, because the leaf is broken and nearly disconnected, it may be starting a new growth, but again, its only a guess.
My guess would be gall, maybe mites??

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