| Author | Message | ||
     David Beckerman (Davidsrose) Greenhorn Username: Davidsrose Post Number: 1 Registered: 05-2006 |
A Spaldeen, by the way, is a tennis ball without the fuzz. The word "Spaldeen" is a play on the Spalding Corp., one of the early major manufacturers of sports balls. I believe they once made tennis balls (perhaps they still do). | ||
| Fara Shimbo (Fara_shimbo) Powdery Mildew Username: Fara Shimbo Post Number: 23 Registered: 04-2006 |
Yup, that's it! | ||
| stephen scanniello (Steprose) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: steprose Post Number: 385 Registered: 01-2006 |
very cool, Spaldeen?? is that the "pink ball" we use for stoop ball? | ||
| Allison Strong (Countess_wildrose) Bug Squisher Username: Countess_wildrose Post Number: 77 Registered: 01-2006 |
Weird!!! I haven't a clue what it is, but I am glad to have seen your pictures! What an oddity!!! Sort of like a misplaced hip. | ||
| Cass Bernstein (Cass) Bug Squisher Username: Cass Post Number: 110 Registered: 01-2006 |
Those are galls caused by the cynipid gall wasp. Baldo probably knows about them. | ||
| Fara Shimbo (Fara_shimbo) Powdery Mildew Username: Fara Shimbo Post Number: 22 Registered: 04-2006 |
This isn't exactly a found rose, so much as a found weirdness... Okay, so I went down to my other Rose Ditch to check how the Rosa woodsii ultramontana were doing. They were doing fine and some already have buds. And then I noticed some of them had... well, they had... uh... These.  On some of the leaves, two canes out of at least a thousand, had these small spikey balls. The largest one is 4.5 mm in diameter. I decided to pull off some leaves, cut open one of these things and put it under the microscope, hence the micrographs in the photo. They are hollow. I thought they might have been insect abodes, but there is no sign of anything ever having been in them; no bugs, no frass, no ingress or egress, nothing. When you cut them open, the balls have the consisency of a Spaldeen (people from Noo Yawk will know what that is; a rubber ball). I was sure I was going to get splashed with something when I cut the first one open, but there was nothing in it but air. I'm... rather astounded. Does anyone have any idea what this might possibly be? |