🇺🇸 bird cherry pocket - 🇩🇪 Traubenkirschen-Narrentasche - 🇪🇪 Toomingaluudik - 🇷🇺 Тафрина черёмуховая 6/9/17—5/17/26
🆔 Taphrina padi (Jacz.) Mix
ℹ️ Hymenium: Naked whitish pale grey ascus layer developing on swollen fruits
ℹ️ Body: Forms elongated, hollow, bladder- or tongue-shaped galls replacing normal fruits of bird cherry, initially pale green, later yellowish-reddish-brown
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Exposed ascus layer on the surface of infected plant tissue
⚪ Spore print white to pale cream
🌳🌸🍒 iotrophic plant parasite on Prunus padus and related bird cherries, causing tongue-like fruit galls, spring to early summer
✖️ Inedible, infected fruits distorted, hollow and stone-less
📏 Microscopic fungus, host deformations up to ~1–3 cm long
🔪 Gall tissue soft, spongy, pale green to yellowish, becoming brownish with age
👃 Indistinct
🔬 Asci cylindrical to clavate, ~50–60 × 25–52 µm, ascospores globose to subglobose, ~4–5 µm, budding within asci, no true ascomata
🔤 Parasitic ascomycete causing elongated hollow galls on bird cherry fruits
🇺🇸 bird cherry pocket - 🇩🇪 Traubenkirschen-Narrentasche - 🇪🇪 Toomingaluudik - 🇷🇺 Тафрина черёмуховая