Did you know those dark clusters are desert mistletoe? According to the National Park Service, this mistletoe is semi-parasitic. It takes water and nutrients from the tree but it’s unlikely to ever kill the tree. It can’t move so killing the tree would be to its own detriment! Birds carry seeds from the berries the mistletoe produces and the seeds grow directly into the tree of the wood. Now you know what those dark clusters are when you see them in a Palo Verde Tree 🎁 | Kristen Keogh
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Did you know those dark clusters are desert mistletoe? According to the National Park Service, this mistletoe is semi-parasitic. It takes water and nutrients from the tree but it’s unlikely to ever kill the tree. It can’t move so killing the tree would be to its own detriment! Birds carry seeds from the berries the mistletoe produces and the seeds grow directly into the tree of the wood. Now you know what those dark clusters are when you see them in a Palo Verde Tree 🎁 | Kristen Keogh
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In honor of today, I thought it fitting to share about desert mistletoe (related to the mistletoe we think of around Christmas). All mistletoes are hemiparasitic, meaning they take nutrients from its host plant and through photosynthesis. They grow from limbs of desert trees but how? Desert mistletoe produces berries that are only edible when red & ripe (in winter), birds will eat the berries and then poo the seeds out onto branches of desert trees and the seeds will grow into the limbs of the t
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