oak apple

Now we wake the sleeping daws who have never seen a human form; now we tread on rotten oak apples, red with age and slippery.

This term may even have extended to plant galls, as they were thought to be of plant origin (see oak apple).

Considerable confusion exists in the general 'literature' between the oak apple and the oak marble gall.

The oak marble is frequently called the oak apple due to the superficial resemblance and the preponderance of the oak marble gall in the wild.

Another species of gall wasp is noted for creating the odd-looking oak apple.

The ink was of two kinds: either a brownish colour, made from oak apples and sulphate of iron; or a jet-black, made from holly.

The gallotannic acid was usually extracted from oak galls (also known as "oak apples"), or galls of other trees; hence the name.

These turn reddish in the fall and are commonly known as oak apples.

On some oak trees, larger galls can be seen, and these are called oak apples.

Bock's description of oak apples is noted in the entomologists data base.