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Caught by a village called St Jurs near the Alpes. The camera struggled with the durect sunshine, as you can see.
Mistletoe is waaaaaaaaay off the beaten track. The last 4.5 miles of Left Fork Buffalo Road to Mistletoe is gravel.
The post office was in the back of the old church building for 25-30 years before finally closing December 30, 1999. I was able to speak with Mrs Couch, the widow of the last Mistletoe postmaster. The church-post office sits in her front yard. She remembers going to church as a child here when it was a functioning Presbyterian Church.
I was shooting near Bear Swamp Pool last Monday and happend to look up and see the Mistletoe above my head. Unless you count flies, it didn't work. I moved my tripod and took a picture of the Mistletoe and then noticed the Holly. I was humming Old Blue Eyes' song all the way home.
Amyema miquelii. Thanks, Dan.
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From Florabase: Aerial shrub. hemiparasitic on stems. Fl. yellow, orange , red, Feb–Dec. Mainly on Eucalyptus, occasionally on Acacia.
And here on a eucalypt.
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Finally found on Floranet but not under the common name of mistletoe! It had to be there, since I had seen this species or something close to it in NSW, in the Hunter.
Paul O. Downey in Cunninghamia (1998,2004) says this species parasitizes 126 species, the majority of which are Eucalypts...
"The Walks" Park at King's Lynn, Norfolk. people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-chri...
(2 shots required to illustrate the subject.)
Seen somewhere south of Illinois as we traveled down to the panhandle of Florida. I believe I first saw it in Tennessee.
Scientific name: Dicaeum hirundinaceum
Family: Dicaeidae
Order: Passeriformes
Description
The small Mistletoebird is the only Australian representative of the flowerpecker family, Dicaeidae, and is also known as the Australian Flowerpecker. Males have a glossy blue-black head, wings and upperparts, a bright red throat and chest, a white belly with a central dark streak and a bright red undertail. Females are grey above, white below, with a grey streak on the belly, and a paler red undertail. Young birds resemble females but are paler and have an orange, rather than dark, bill. These birds are swift and erratic fliers, moving singly or in pairs, usually high in or above the canopy.
Minimum size: 10 cm
Maximum size: 11 cm
Average size: 10 cm
Average weight: 9 g
Breeding season: September to March
Clutch size: Three
Time in nest: 15 days
Facts from "Birds in Backyards"
The balls of green in these trees are mistletoe. In our area, most hardwood trees have a great crop of mistletoe that can be seen with the leaves off the trees during winter. The following statements were found at people.howstuffworks.com/mistletoe.htm
Mistletoe (Phoradendron flavescens or Viscum album) is a parasitic plant that grows on trees, particularly hardwood trees like oak and apple.
Hanging mistletoe over a doorway during the Christmas holidays is a tradition that most Americans and a lot of people around the world have grown up with.
There are a lot of myths surrounding mistletoe. Vikings dating back to the eighth century believed that mistletoe had the power to raise humans from the dead, relating to the resurrection of Balder, the god of the summer sun.
For more information go to the howstuff works web site.
Have a nice day!!!
F_IMG_4770 1 Feb 2006
Brockham, Surrey - 16 December 2012. The channel of the River Mole in the foreground (the main river is out of the left of the shot) floods only after heavy rain - and has done so often this year!
Wear this pendant or hand above the door. The love and kisses will never wither or fade over time...
Handcrafted from copper and glass by Ethora.
Witley Court is one of the finest ruined country houses in Britain today. It was built by Thomas Foley in 1655 on the site of a former manor house near Great Witley. Subsequent additions were designed by John Nash in the early 1800s and the Court was subsequently bought by the Dudley family in 1837.
In the September of 1937, whilst the house was owned by a Kidderminster carpet manufacturer Sir Herbert Smith, a fire started in the ballroom. Although causing a lot of damages, some of the house survived.
The following year, the house was divided up into auctioned lots and sold off to demolition contractors and timber merchants.
It remained derelict until the 1970's and is now under the watchful eye of English Heritage.