#taphrina

Fun fact! Five years after the start of The Last Diamondbreaker, Taphrina is all grown up! Here she is at age 19, following in the footsteps of the hero that originally inspired her as the protagonist of her own story! :)

Taphrina the Tiger Girl belongs to @thecomicoalman!

Found some bigger, better-lit alder tongues. These were on the road verge opposite Kames Village Store.

This is Taphrina, one of my oldest OCs so far! She’s the 14-year-old archer of the New Diamondbreakers, and one of its most mischievous members at that. Despite how long shes been around, this is my first time finally making a ref sheet for her LOL.

These strange growths on alder cones are caused by a fungus - Taphrina alni - but they are actually galls. Like the structures produced by gall-wasps, the natural growth of the plant is distorted by the fungus to produce distinctive structures for its benefit.

Bozzacchione #bozzacchione #taphrinapruni #taphrina #prunus #funghi #micologia (presso Policoro) https://www.instagram.com/p/COIX71flENp/?igshid=adi69rdkc0oj

Heaps of Taphrina betulina growing on a birch three of some kind (Betula ...?)