Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 09 Apr 2018.
March 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 09 Apr 2018.
Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 09 Apr 2018.
July 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 09 Apr 2018.
Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 09 Apr 2018.
December 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 09 Apr 2018.
Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 09 Apr 2018.
May 4, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 09 Apr 2018.
🥰Planta erva-de-passarinho (Struthanthus flexicaulis)
Ela abraça a árvore até sufocar. 🤗🤔
#Loranthaceae
#Santalaceae
Ela abraça a árvore até sufocar. 🤗🤔
#Loranthaceae
#Santalaceae
June 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
🥰Planta erva-de-passarinho (Struthanthus flexicaulis)
Ela abraça a árvore até sufocar. 🤗🤔
#Loranthaceae
#Santalaceae
Ela abraça a árvore até sufocar. 🤗🤔
#Loranthaceae
#Santalaceae
#leptomeria preissiana putting on a show! This is a widespread hemiparasitic shrub that is within thee #Santalaceae family! I love our odd parasitic plants here!
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
#leptomeria preissiana putting on a show! This is a widespread hemiparasitic shrub that is within thee #Santalaceae family! I love our odd parasitic plants here!
Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 04/09/2018.
January 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Phainopeplas (Passeriformes: Ptiliogonatidae: Phainopepla nitens) are common in hot areas of the American southwest and Mexico. They eat insects and fruit, but their favorite food is desert mistletoe (Santalaceae: Phoradendron californicum). Joshua Tree National Park, California, 04/09/2018.
Exocarpos cupressiformis, family Santalaceae
Cherry Ballart, Native Cherry, related to Sandalwood, Bitter Quandong and Mistletoe, all semi-parasitic plants
Cherry Ballart, Native Cherry, related to Sandalwood, Bitter Quandong and Mistletoe, all semi-parasitic plants
August 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Exocarpos cupressiformis, family Santalaceae
Cherry Ballart, Native Cherry, related to Sandalwood, Bitter Quandong and Mistletoe, all semi-parasitic plants
Cherry Ballart, Native Cherry, related to Sandalwood, Bitter Quandong and Mistletoe, all semi-parasitic plants
Glowing gold while in bloom! Leptomeria scrobiculata, a hemiparasitic shrub in the Santalaceae family, its tiny flowers and borne on short axillary inflorescences. It’s commonly found in winter wet areas, from Bunbury to Albany.
May 31, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Glowing gold while in bloom! Leptomeria scrobiculata, a hemiparasitic shrub in the Santalaceae family, its tiny flowers and borne on short axillary inflorescences. It’s commonly found in winter wet areas, from Bunbury to Albany.
Pumpkin Spice Santalaceae
September 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Pumpkin Spice Santalaceae
Comandra umbellata | bastard toadflax, a plant that can photosynthesize but also parasitizes blueberries.
Santalaceae, sandalwood family.
#nativeplants
Santalaceae, sandalwood family.
#nativeplants
May 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Comandra umbellata | bastard toadflax, a plant that can photosynthesize but also parasitizes blueberries.
Santalaceae, sandalwood family.
#nativeplants
Santalaceae, sandalwood family.
#nativeplants
Parasitic plants time 💁♂️ with #Leptomeria cunninghamii! This root parasite is commonly found in the jarrah forest loving the understory life! It produces a mass of these tiny coppery flowers, and is also related to #Santalum! #Santalaceae
December 8, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Parasitic plants time 💁♂️ with #Leptomeria cunninghamii! This root parasite is commonly found in the jarrah forest loving the understory life! It produces a mass of these tiny coppery flowers, and is also related to #Santalum! #Santalaceae
Notothixos subaureus on Amyema congener
Host - Casuarina torulosa,
Santalaceae, Loranthaceae,
Breakaway Road, North Queensland,
Sept 2020
#Notothixos #Santalaceae #Amyema #Loranthaceae #wildoz #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany #Mistletoe #parasiticplant #nature
Host - Casuarina torulosa,
Santalaceae, Loranthaceae,
Breakaway Road, North Queensland,
Sept 2020
#Notothixos #Santalaceae #Amyema #Loranthaceae #wildoz #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany #Mistletoe #parasiticplant #nature
December 12, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Notothixos subaureus on Amyema congener
Host - Casuarina torulosa,
Santalaceae, Loranthaceae,
Breakaway Road, North Queensland,
Sept 2020
#Notothixos #Santalaceae #Amyema #Loranthaceae #wildoz #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany #Mistletoe #parasiticplant #nature
Host - Casuarina torulosa,
Santalaceae, Loranthaceae,
Breakaway Road, North Queensland,
Sept 2020
#Notothixos #Santalaceae #Amyema #Loranthaceae #wildoz #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany #Mistletoe #parasiticplant #nature
The Huntington Botanical Gardens grows & displays Viscum minimum (#Santalaceae), which is a mistletoe that parasitizes Euphorbia polygona (#Euphorbiaceae). Those red berries are the fruits of the parasite, not the Euphorbia. #parasiticplant #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
February 13, 2024 at 5:14 PM
The Huntington Botanical Gardens grows & displays Viscum minimum (#Santalaceae), which is a mistletoe that parasitizes Euphorbia polygona (#Euphorbiaceae). Those red berries are the fruits of the parasite, not the Euphorbia. #parasiticplant #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Mistletoes (#Santalaceae & #Loranthacea) have seeds surrounded by sticky mucilage, which glues excreted seeds to branches where they germinate & parasitize their hosts. : sp. indet. Australia, Julie Burgher CCBYNCND2 #stickyplant #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
December 23, 2023 at 2:36 PM
Mistletoes (#Santalaceae & #Loranthacea) have seeds surrounded by sticky mucilage, which glues excreted seeds to branches where they germinate & parasitize their hosts. : sp. indet. Australia, Julie Burgher CCBYNCND2 #stickyplant #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
The evidence is unequivocal: Australian sandalwood IS a Threatened Species.
From my PhD:
Prolific or precarious: a review of the status of Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum [R.Br.] A.DC., Santalaceae)
www.publish.csiro.au/RJ/RJ21017
From my PhD:
Prolific or precarious: a review of the status of Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum [R.Br.] A.DC., Santalaceae)
www.publish.csiro.au/RJ/RJ21017
Prolific or precarious: a review of the status of Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum [R.Br.] A.DC., Santalaceae)
Across its entire range in Australia’s western and southern rangelands, Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum [R.Br.] A.DC.) is on a path towards ‘extinction in the wild’––the International Union f...
www.publish.csiro.au
November 26, 2024 at 9:31 PM
The evidence is unequivocal: Australian sandalwood IS a Threatened Species.
From my PhD:
Prolific or precarious: a review of the status of Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum [R.Br.] A.DC., Santalaceae)
www.publish.csiro.au/RJ/RJ21017
From my PhD:
Prolific or precarious: a review of the status of Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum [R.Br.] A.DC., Santalaceae)
www.publish.csiro.au/RJ/RJ21017
Arceuthobium (dwarf mistletoe), Phoradendron (mistletoes of the Americas), and Viscum (mistletoes of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia) are all in the sandalwood family, the Santalaceae. Most members of the order Santalales are parasites or hemiparasites. Sandalwood itself is a hemiparasite.
April 1, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Arceuthobium (dwarf mistletoe), Phoradendron (mistletoes of the Americas), and Viscum (mistletoes of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia) are all in the sandalwood family, the Santalaceae. Most members of the order Santalales are parasites or hemiparasites. Sandalwood itself is a hemiparasite.
Phoradendron rubrum (#Santalaceae) is an endangered (in FL) mistletoe that grows on Swietenia mahagoni (#Meliaceae) and is successfully cultivated at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. #parasiticplant #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
February 13, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Phoradendron rubrum (#Santalaceae) is an endangered (in FL) mistletoe that grows on Swietenia mahagoni (#Meliaceae) and is successfully cultivated at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. #parasiticplant #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
More than decoration, Mistletoe (Santalaceae family) is a multi-talented, semi-parasitic plant. In honor of the coming new year, we’ll use this week to learn about a plant long associated with blessings, renewal, freedom, and transformation. May it’s good fortune shine on us all!
December 31, 2024 at 11:56 PM
More than decoration, Mistletoe (Santalaceae family) is a multi-talented, semi-parasitic plant. In honor of the coming new year, we’ll use this week to learn about a plant long associated with blessings, renewal, freedom, and transformation. May it’s good fortune shine on us all!
🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸
Quentin Cronk looks at how and why so many eudicot lineages jettisoned the petal, often to reinvent it via petaloidy of the remaining perianth whorl 🌼
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @ubcbotany.bsky.social
Quentin Cronk looks at how and why so many eudicot lineages jettisoned the petal, often to reinvent it via petaloidy of the remaining perianth whorl 🌼
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @ubcbotany.bsky.social
![Fig. 1.Some examples of apetalous flowers. (A) Thalictrum thalictroides (Ranunculaceae); (B) Bougainvillea glabra (Nyctaginaceae); (C) Fagopyrum dibotrys (Polygonaceae); (D) Quinchamalium chilense (Schoepfiaceae [Santalaceae]); (E) Swartzia apetala var. subcordata (Leguminosae); (F) Saraca asoca (Leguminosae). Photo credits: (A) khurtwilliams, CC BY-NC 2.0; (B) Carsten Niehaus, CC BY-SA 3.0; C. Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0; (D) Jardín Botánico Nacional, Viña del Mar, Chile, CC BY-NC 2.0; (E) Alex Popovkin, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0; (F) David Eickhoff, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ggz22gcwkakll7efac23g33s/bafkreic2g3vs5rhj2uqmsunvvqg4prbqeescw7rxdrnunker6tgl5ngigq)
October 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸
Quentin Cronk looks at how and why so many eudicot lineages jettisoned the petal, often to reinvent it via petaloidy of the remaining perianth whorl 🌼
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @ubcbotany.bsky.social
Quentin Cronk looks at how and why so many eudicot lineages jettisoned the petal, often to reinvent it via petaloidy of the remaining perianth whorl 🌼
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @ubcbotany.bsky.social
🌿🐝Flower color is crucial for attracting pollinators, but green flowers seem inconspicuous against a leafy background. How do they succeed in attracting insects? (2/7)
December 17, 2024 at 11:09 AM
🌿🐝Flower color is crucial for attracting pollinators, but green flowers seem inconspicuous against a leafy background. How do they succeed in attracting insects? (2/7)
At first, I thought that mistletoes were one big family of weird and festive parasites, either Loranthaceae or Viscaceae, but apparently, they've been split up, and the European mistletoe and its close relatives, Viscum of Viscaceae, have been shuffled in with the sandalwoods of Santalaceae
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
At first, I thought that mistletoes were one big family of weird and festive parasites, either Loranthaceae or Viscaceae, but apparently, they've been split up, and the European mistletoe and its close relatives, Viscum of Viscaceae, have been shuffled in with the sandalwoods of Santalaceae
I was thinking of Santalaceae but totally whiffed on those two. The problem with video is you can never fix it once it’s publishe!
August 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
I was thinking of Santalaceae but totally whiffed on those two. The problem with video is you can never fix it once it’s publishe!
Yes, very similar morphology in Arceuthobium! Both in the Santalaceae family, though not all mistletoes in this family are squamate:)
December 7, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Yes, very similar morphology in Arceuthobium! Both in the Santalaceae family, though not all mistletoes in this family are squamate:)
Mistletoes, belonging to the Santalaceae family - yes, Santa, I swear I'm not making this up - are actual parasites. They have the ability to photosynthesize, but they draw nutrients and water from its host tree by burrowing through the bark into the wood. [Boobook48 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)]
December 10, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Mistletoes, belonging to the Santalaceae family - yes, Santa, I swear I'm not making this up - are actual parasites. They have the ability to photosynthesize, but they draw nutrients and water from its host tree by burrowing through the bark into the wood. [Boobook48 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)]