Alnus incana  (Speckled Alder)

© Bryan Kelly-McArthur (Photo ID #72869)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location	Moberly BC
Photographer	Bryan Kelly-McArthur
Habitat	moist irrigation ditch fed gully
Photo Date	July 12, 2016
Upload Date	December 05, 2016
Elevation (m)	926
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Photo ID #	72869
Comments	showing Taphrina occidentalis (Alder tongues) fungus growing on female catkins. Fungus "produces a hypertrophic condition of the bract resulting in long twisted tongue-like outgrowths .... " ((Matchmaker (MycoMatch) )). Confirmed by Michael Beug.