Rooms that grow on trees

The British-gall plate groups oak galls with the rose’s moss-like bedeguar near the centre. Their outer shapes differ, but Wood invites the reader to think of a larva housed within plant tissue. These structures grow around their occupants instead of being woven from gathered material.

In the foreign-gall plate, the angular forms at lower right carry projections around a flattened end; the ridged form at lower left has a different outline again. Wood’s collection makes a chamber’s outer variety visible. Colour is interpretive, and the specimens are not all shown at the same scale.

Some animal dwellings are carried, woven or dug. These are grown in plant tissue. Wood’s gall plates turn familiar bumps and moss-like tufts into a collection of hidden larval chambers. From Homes Without Hands, physical PDF pages 509–512 and 520–524. These colour interpretations follow the book’s historical plates.

The British-gall plate groups oak galls with the rose’s moss-like bedeguar near the centre. Their outer shapes differ, but Wood invites the reader to think of a larva housed within plant tissue. These structures grow around their occupants instead of being woven from gathered material.
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In the foreign-gall plate, the angular forms at lower right carry projections around a flattened end; the ridged form at lower left has a different outline again. Wood’s collection makes a chamber’s outer variety visible. Colour is interpretive, and the specimens are not all shown at the same scale.
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Rooms that grow on trees

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