tell me this is not a headless psychedelic hedgehog


some type of growth, attached to an oak leaf. (found 18 Sep 1997 in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh.)

a headless psychedelic hedgehog is what it looks like to me.

each hair sprouts from a kind of drupelet.

I feel some temptation to dissect it.

black cigar-shapes sprout through the other side of the leaf.

the magenta hairs and yellow body were more colorful six years ago.


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