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On a butternut tree. Located in eastern NC.
I know your explanation is the right one. But it looks like a blueberry leaf 🤣😂🤣
Blueberry has an entire margin, but OP might have to taste it for a confirmed ID...
Haha!
Well, OP, what's it taste like? (Also, please don't eat it)
I mean, maybe he's a bird...
Can’t be, r/birdsarentreal
How could I forget
Nonsense, clearly a leaf circle. Like a crop circle, but with really tiny UFOs.
Not a chance. It's a M&M tree. That's where they get the green ones
Hot damn, that’s amazing!
Wait… where do we get red ones from?
Redwoods!
This blew my mind, thank you!
A fricken mazing!
This gave me a boner, and please don't take that the wrong way. I just love when someone who knows shit shares it.
Are they edible?
the fact this exist troubles me to the core,
Thank you!
tree barnacles
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Insect face huggers! Don't let your stickbugs near that
I have a hackberry tree that has these same gall formations on the leaves from hackberry psyllids laying their eggs. Currently trying to treat with insecticide root drench because the gnats are ALL over.
Leaf gall. We had it and I had the city arborist come.out. it's harmless to the tree but tends to make the leaves fall off more than usual. We had to spray our tree with some Sulphur smelling spray bought at a nursery. You have to spray it before leaves come out...usually for us in ontario...March on a nice day. We had to do it for a few years.
OP how is it you live in North Carolina and yet this is the first time you've ever stepped outside?
Leaf gall; this shit's crazy cool and usually not detrimental for a tree. An insect laid an egg who secreted chemicals that hijacked the tree's cellular machinery to produce a structure that's a safe, edible home for the developing larvae. It's food for insectivorous birds and a crucial part of how trees sustain the food web.