Blake's Mum
#39 Texture
For 52 Weeks of Pics 2013
Week 39 Texture
A very obvious choice for this theme, I guess, but I just love oak trees, and any opportunity to capture images of them is worth doing, in my book.
This is one of several magnificent specimens in the woods where I regularly walk Blake. There's no evidence of the dreaded Chronic Oak Decline disease (when the bark develops black weeping cankers) but it does have many which are producing the deformed acorns as a result of infestation of the grubs of the gall wasp.
This is where a growth appears as a mass of knobbly plant tissue just on the acorn itself. Where several grubs are competing for space, the gall can completely enclose the acorn and hide it from view.
I'm not sure if it's peculiar to just the UK?
#39 Texture
For 52 Weeks of Pics 2013
Week 39 Texture
A very obvious choice for this theme, I guess, but I just love oak trees, and any opportunity to capture images of them is worth doing, in my book.
This is one of several magnificent specimens in the woods where I regularly walk Blake. There's no evidence of the dreaded Chronic Oak Decline disease (when the bark develops black weeping cankers) but it does have many which are producing the deformed acorns as a result of infestation of the grubs of the gall wasp.
This is where a growth appears as a mass of knobbly plant tissue just on the acorn itself. Where several grubs are competing for space, the gall can completely enclose the acorn and hide it from view.
I'm not sure if it's peculiar to just the UK?