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Old 02-11-2007, 06:20 PM
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That is certainly a size! I never imagined Galls could ever get to that sort of size.
Thanks for that great link, it will come in handy when I find some more .
There's a British Plant Gall Society which has set up a website and hopes to have a comprehensive gallery but it's far from that at present.

There's a technique for showing the animals within some galls - take (e.g. a lime leaf with those protruding galls, put it into caustic potash (or caustic soda) and the leaf becomes transparent ... fascinating well, I thought so ....
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