The Forestry Forum

Michelle was heading over to a friends to drop off spring greens when she rounded a corner and saw green balls on the ground. She stopped and grabbed a few, realized they were green oak galls and opened one to look inside. A few minutes later she began closing up, coughed and finally cleared it. Her question, was that just coincidence or is there something in an oak gall? I thought I remembered that they were a delicacy in some places?

I've seen them last few days on my woods roads. I think they are the same gall that turns white with little red dots? 

Oaks are in full pollen stage around here, sure she didn't react to that?

Funny, two gall posts the same day. I've used em to make ink once and didn't react, involved pulverizing a dozen galls.
 They have lots of  tannic and gallic acid is why they make good ink though, so maybe she was reacting to that.