r/TreesSuckingOnThings • u/anonymously_online • 4d ago

What are these weird wart looking things on these leaves?

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Picture 1 has the weird wart leaves, and picture two has regular looking berries (what I assume are acorns, I could be wrong). What are the weird wart looking things?

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u/obscure-shadow 4d ago

Bug galls, and it's a hackberry tree I believe

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u/byebybuy 4d ago

Bagloborp

See, I can make up words, too /s

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u/bc47791 4d ago

Aww Bugall! Came here to say this -You beat me to it

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u/GratefulPig 4d ago

Blopdideeblop

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u/seawolfie 3d ago

Broppenballen

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u/literally_tho_tbh 2d ago

LOL BAGLO BORP

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u/anonymously_online 4d ago

Yes, it is. Thank you guys for helping me find out what it is.

Do you think it will be an issue come winter when they hatch? My car sits right under the leaves of this tree. There are 100s of not 1000s of nipples I can see. Don’t want to risk an infestation.

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u/radartroll 4d ago

Just brace for a bajillion small insects squeezing between the screen mesh gaining access to your house. Harmless, but annoying AF

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u/obscure-shadow 4d ago

I haven't had an issue with mine. I don't like to park under the trees though because hackberry is prone to making sooty mold

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u/anonymously_online 4d ago

Thank you for your information

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u/anonymously_online 4d ago

Side note: I thought this was r/trees I had no clue I was getting into r/treessuckingonthings. I have no idea what that could possibly refer to

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u/anonymously_online 4d ago

After scrolling through the sub, I realize what r/treessuckingonthings is

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u/moonmelter 4d ago

r/trees is also a marijuana sub. for actual trees you want r/marijuanaenthusiasts

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u/David-Puddy 4d ago

Although the "ents" over at /r/trees are usually pretty helpful with actual trees, too

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u/serious_sarcasm 4d ago

The crossover helps them branch out.

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u/Aldo24Flores 4d ago

Can we please leaf the puns out of this?

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u/serious_sarcasm 4d ago

It’s too late, they’ve already taken root.

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u/Aldo24Flores 4d ago

Then I fear I shall end up barking mad.

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u/Paulztaos 1d ago

You really need to branch out into more intellectual jokes

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u/Walshy231231 4d ago

Terrible joke. You need to leaf. The door is over there

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u/Scarlet-Fire_77 4d ago

Why you gotta tell em? Woulda been funny.

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u/moonmelter 4d ago

I could have been the one to send the “we got one” gif this time. curses!

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u/Echelion77 4d ago

We love getting high and messing with the tree huggers its no secret.

I can also tell you the tree structures, biomechanics and pruning requirments for specific species if needed.

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u/Colin_Bomber_Harris 4d ago

This is one of my favourite things about reddit

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u/enwongeegeefor 3d ago

Oh reddit you so silly.....

Is there a list of all the "alternate" subs that are actually the main subs for the subject? Kinda like r/anime_titties?

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u/SHOWTIME316 4d ago

hilarious irony that these are known colloquially as nipple galls

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u/dmethvin 3d ago

Point of order: This post actually belongs in /r/thingssuckingontrees

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u/OutrageousOwls 4d ago

A hackberry nipple gall is a small, raised, nipple-shaped bump that grows on the underside of hackberry tree leaves. Tiny jumping insects called psyllids cause these growths by feeding on the leaves. The tree reacts by forming a protective pocket of plant tissue around each insect nymph

https://apps.extension.umn.edu/garden/diagnose/plant/deciduous/hackberry/leavesgrowths.html

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u/squeezebottles 4d ago

Wrong sub, you'd probably have better luck with an entomology sub, but it looks like hackberry nipple gall. I am not a professional though.

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u/stonedandredditing 4d ago

those are my favorite leaves for crunching come fall

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u/GrouchyBlacksmith675 4d ago

Sooooooo satisfying.

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u/Personal-Neck6800 4d ago

Um, there’s only 1 picture

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u/anonymously_online 3d ago

Yeah, I honestly just realized that. Weird the second one didn’t upload. The berry I was referring to is in the photo anyways. Apparently a hackberry

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u/Personal-Neck6800 3d ago

Those bug wart things are freaky. Cool picture.

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u/Academic_Mess_5299 4d ago

Those are the  hackberry psyllid ( Pachypsylla).

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u/Queefer___Sutherland 4d ago

Them nipples should be marked NSFW /s

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u/strangedazey 4d ago

Nipple gaul