Relatively large, robust spindle shaped bud galls covered in facets elongating to rounded red-purple tips. The gall begins green and turns white as it matures, but the tips are apparently purple even when the gall is quite young, dense at first and spreading out as it matures. The overall appearance resembles a strawberry. They emerge from buds on Quercus sinuata in the spring at budbreak, entirely replacing the leaves or flowers that would otherwise have developed, or occasionally developing on the edge of a young leaf. Observed in early April in Texas.