Alnus incana  (Speckled Alder)

© Bryan Kelly-McArthur (Photo ID #87494)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location	Moberly BC
Photographer	Bryan Kelly-McArthur
Habitat	edge wetland
Photo Date	January 07, 2018
Upload Date	November 22, 2020
Elevation (m)	926
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Photo ID #	87494
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) )). ID confirmed by Michael Beug