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Species: Viscum shirense Sprague Date: 2005-10-17 Location: By main Vumba rd Habitat: Open roadside verge nr forest edge.
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Species: Osyris compressa (Berg.) A.DC. Date: 2014-01-15 Location: By path on slopes above Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden, Cape Town Habitat: Shrubby vegetation
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Sverige, Småland, Ramsebo
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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark
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Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona, US
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California, United States
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La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
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Hulumoa or KaumahanaSantalaceae (Sandalwood family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Niihau and Kahoolawe)Aiea Ridge Trail, OahuKorthalsella are parasitic plants. This species is host on a number of plant species and is the most widespread of the Korthalsella sp. in the Hawaiian Islands.The host in this photo is koa (Acacia koa).
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Words borrowed! "Choretrum candollei is a member of the Santalaceae. The species that make up this family are hemiparasites. Their leaves are able to photosynthesise but have to obtain water and soluble salts from host plants. Choretrum candollei is a root parasite and is endemic to Australia. In effect the species is an underground mistletoe."Common and widespread; conspicuous bush when in flower.
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Hulumoa or Kauai korthal mistletoeSantalaceae (Sandalwood family)Endemic to the Hawaiian IslandsKaala, OahuKorthalsella are parasitic plants. This species is host specific on species of Myrsine and Metrosideros. The host in this photo is klea lau lii (Myrsine sandwicensis).
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Heau or Gaudichaud's exocarposSantalaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian IslandsEndangeredPalikea, Oahu
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HulumoaSantalaceae (Sandalwood family)Indigenous to the Hawaiian IslandsKaala, OahuKorthalsella are parasitic plants. This species is host specific on species of Metrosideros, Diopsyros, Chamaesyce, and Sapindus. The host in this photo is hia (Metrosideros sp.).
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Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
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[syn. Santalum freycinetianum var. freycinetianum]Iliahi or Forest sandalwoodSantalaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Oahu only)Aiea Loop Trail, OahuThe Hawaiian name lau ala literally means "sweet wood" or "fragrant wood." Though early Hawaiians may not have used iliahi wood extensively, it was still valued. Besides used as firewood, the light yellow wood was sometimes used to make kk or musical bow.Medicinally, the leaves were used as a shampoo for dandruff and head lice; and a drink from powdered material for male and female sex organs or "for sores of long duration."The fragrant heartwood and bark of iliahi was pounded to scent the smell of new kapa (tapa), and when added with coconut oil the would water proof the material.One older source (Charles Gaudichaud,1819) states that Hawaiians "used all fragrant plants, all flowers and even colored fruits" for lei making. The red or yellow were indicative of divine and chiefly rank; the purple flowers and fruit, or with fragrance, were associated with divinity. Because of their long-standing place in oral tradition, the leaves, new leaves (liko) and flowers of iliahi were likely used for lei making by early Hawaiians, even though there are no written sources.NPH00006
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Family: ViscaceaeDistribution: A leaf less ,dichotomously branched parasite on trees like Albizia, Manilkara and Acasia plants. It is a commonly found in forests of tropical South Asia.A stem parasite growing on trees; internodes angular, leaves reduced to small scles, flowers small, monoecious, fascicled in triads in the axils of leaves or at nodes, stamens as many as perianth lobes and adnate to them, ovary 1 celled, inferior, fruit a berry.Pase of the plant is applied to wounds.
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Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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Clayton, California, United States
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Commonly called "Spiral Plant" due to the spiralling flowers on the ends of the plant stalks. Photo 24 Aug 2004
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Species: Viscum shirense Sprague Date: 2005-10-17 Location: By main Vumba rd Habitat: Open roadside verge nr forest edge.