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My Dove and Mistletoe Chrismas hearts together. I took this shot for my website and can't believe how hard it was to get the right effect.
It was a dark and gloomy day, but my flash didn't want to work, so I've got darker than normal pics.
While historically often considered a pest that kills trees and devalues natural habitats, mistletoe has recently become recognized as an ecological keystone, an organism that has a disproportionately pervasive influence over its community. A broad array of animals depend on mistletoe for food, consuming the leaves and young shoots as well as transferring pollen between plants and dispersing the sticky seeds.
The leaves and young twigs are the parts used by herbalists, and it is popular in Europe, especially in Germany, for treating circulatory and respiratory system problems, and cancer. Mistletoe is being studied as a potential treatment for tumors. Although such use is not yet permitted in the U.S., Mistletoe is prescribed in Europe.
Mistletoe Thrush mum seeing off the magpies - again !
She ended sitting up on the old London County Council sign on the side of our council block. Keeping a good eye on her youngster.
Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract water and nutrients from the host plant.
The name mistletoe originally referred to the species Viscum album (European mistletoe, of the family Santalaceae in the order Santalales); it is the only species native to the British Isles and much of Europe.
This card for the card drive was made with a Crafter Companion stamp set and also coloured with Bic Mark It makers. The circles were punched using a Recollections mini circle punch. I am submitting this to fridaysketchchallenge.blogspot.com/2013/10/sketch-55.html, www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-..., www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2013/10/challenge-104-a... , tsgclearstamps.blogspot.com/2013/11/tsg232-pattern-power.... and sassycheryls.blogspot.com/2013/10/show-me-thursday-1.html
christmassy mistletoe and some poetry :)
Pilgrims have lips, they kiss too. Please let me kiss you...
Wire leaf mistletoe - amyema preissii - I have never seen one of these before. Mistletoe are aerial parasitic plants and this particular one favours the acacia which is what I found it on. I have also discovered that Australia has around 90 different mistletoe and around 70 of these are found nowhere else in the world. Swan Bay, Victoria, Australia.
Another mistletoe card. This one is blank inside with the option of having "got mistletoe?" stamped.
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Mistletoe is usually found on native soft wooded trees like Poplar and Apple, but here, i managed to establish it on a Californian shrub - Fremontodendron californicum, California Glory.
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Dicaeum hirundinaceum
Bowra Station near Cunnamulla is now owned by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy
I've looked for oak mistletoe flowers for years. Plants are often not accessible. I never found any flowers only fruit. I stopped to look at a mostly dry beaver pond and there were several mistletoe plants growing within reach. Damn if I didn't find the plants in bloom. For future reference, oak mistletoe blooms in the middle of the winter. For more information: plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PHLE14