I ran across a plant on a walk that has mutant growth There are a number of photos of the growth plus two of the plant below the growth (needle like leaves and small whitish flowers are normal growth). It seems to me such aberrations are very important and there needs to be a method for researcher…

It would be good to have a label for “abnormal” or something like that. In the meantime, you can post this twice. Once, leading with the normal growth, for the host plant. (Ask a question about the abnormality.) Also, consider this version posted for the abnormality. You might label that “rust …

[image] teellbee: Aberrants Still a newbie and still learning. I’ll need to do some reading up on projects, how to find them and add references. Meanwhile, Weird Wild Wonders , seems similar and somebody added a reference to the record.

My experience is mostly silence when I mis-classify or simple correction with no comment. The system compare option top choices were King Parrot and Lace Monitor. :grinning: I understand your point but was raised too honest to do that. As it is, unknown seemed the most suitable category to me. Ma…

But this project is for colour mutations and other causes of colour change, this is more of a structural change, like a result of pathogen and there should be projects for this.

It’s very helpful to duplicate observations like these where there are really two distinct organisms of interest, the plant and the deformation-causer. The example you showed looks like a witches broom deformation, which can be caused by fungi, bacteria, and a number of other organisms. It’s probabl…

As others have mentioned already, it could be caused by a viral or fungal infection. You said you confirmed it was “mutant growth”, but I’m curious as to how you came to that conclusion? As far as tagging something as a mutation, there’s Observation Fields for various tags. There’s already tags for…

Two things - If there is a correction on the ID, you do have the option of asking the identifier what makes them change the ID. A good way to learn. Use @username to tag them. Secondly, getting used to variation and disease/parasites is part of the learning process. I work mainly with moths, and so…

In some instances, what you are seeing may be fasciation and here are two links shared with me when I had a similar observation with some odd looking coyote brush: https://baynature.org/2019/09/04/fasciated-plants-and-where-to-find-them-in-the-wild/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation#Causa…

Ah… I could not reAlly understand what the normal plant looked like, so I figured the brilliant color was the aberration🤷🏽♀️

Will do if I can find the name of the host. I know some but and a long way short of experienced.

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