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#mistletoe

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Soh Kam Yung

Interesting.

"[W]ater is transported from the roots to the shoots/leaves because the atmosphere (where the shoots/leaves are) have lower water concentration than the soil (where the roots are).
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So in order to suck up water from its host, a mistletoe would need to maintain a lower water potential than the shoots of the host tree - this is why mistletoes are very thirsty plants."

dailyparasite.blogspot.com/202

dailyparasite.blogspot.com<i>Lysiana exocarpi</i>Sometimes parasites get their own parasites too, and if you think that "enemy of my enemy is my friend", then you'd think this would be good...
#Mistletoe#Plants#Biology
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Klaus Alexander Seistrup
[ @plants | @gardening | #mistletoe | #Viscum | #Santalaceae | #gardening | #bloomscrolling ]

So here we are: 5½ years later, the mistletoe I sowed on a small cherry tree is blooming (I apologize for the terribly blurry picture). The flowers are nothing spectacular, but it's a great reward to experience this. Does anyone know if the flowers are male or female? There are plenty of wild mistletoes in the area, so perhaps I can hold a hope for berries if the flowers are female.

Second picture: same age, different host species (Salix / willow).

/cc jamessemaj@p.palindro.me.uk
Five or six year old blooming mistletoe twins on a young cherry tree
Five or six year old scrawny mistletoe seedling on a willow
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scy

Okay, I’ve published the test results here:
codeberg.org/scy/python-markdo

Summary: If you need to do #Markdown round-trip modifications in #Python (i.e. load a Markdown file into a Python representation, make some changes, save it again, while _only_ changing the parts of the document that you actually touched, not normalize/rewrite it from the ground up), then #mistletoe is what you want to use. #Mistune is a close runner-up, but has its issues. Everything else basically doesn’t work.

Codeberg.orgpython-markdown-roundtrip-testTesting several Python Markdown libraries for their round-trip capabilities.
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Angus Davison

Genome of the week has to be the massive 90 Gb assembly of mistletoe, by the Darwin Tree of Life (not on 🐘). #DToL

In 2016, I collected hundreds of berries and squished them onto several small trees in the garden. In 2019, I spotted a sprouting seedling, which fortunately turned out to be a male and a female - so I finally have mistletoe to hang in the house. Only taken six years! More info on the genome and the difficulties encountered here: darwintreeoflife.org/news_item #genomics #genome #mistletoe

Sprouting or seedling mistletoe on rowan trunk
Large mistletoes on small tree
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Petra van Cronenburg

#Mistletoe is popular again during this season. In #nature, their white berries are an important food source for highly specialised #birds, e.g. the #MistleTrush, #Turdus viscivorus.

But have you ever seen the #wood on which mistletoes grow? I waited years for that #poplar #branch to fall from the crown and dragged the "club" home in stages over about 2 weeks. Hard work. Look at this #beauty in my #blog: cronenburg.net/mistletoe/ (yes, I'm #blogging again) #trees #treehugger #NatureMatchCuts

www.cronenburg.netThe Giant Club – Petra van Cronenburg
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Klaus Alexander Seistrup
I've always been told that seeds from the mistletoes you can buy around #Christmas are no longer able to germinate because they are kept in dark during transportation.

Well, four years ago I decided to challenge that claim: I bought a mistletoe twig in a local nursery and “sowed” the seeds on a Japanese cherry tree resp. a young willow in my garden.

Result: While lots and lots of the seeds germinated, only a few of the seedlings survived the first year after germination, and fewer still made it past the cotyledon stage.

Here, four years later, I have three mistletoes on the cherry tree: a smaller one and a bigger one (the latter is a pair of twins, actually), and a really tiny one on the willow. Please see the attached pictures.

The tiny mistletoe on the willow seems to be having a hard time. It's still a tiny seedling only. I guess it doesn't approve of the host species.

The mistletoes on the cherry tree, on the other hand, seem to be thriving, although it took three years for the first real leaves to appear, so I've had to be very patient.

Apparently twin embryos are very common in mistletoe (i.e., Viscum album), but only one survived in my garden.

We ought to challenge superstitious beliefs.

/cc [ @plants | #mistletoe | #Viscum | #Santalaceae | #gardening ]
Four year old mistletoe twins growing on a young cherry tree
Four year old mistletoe seedling growing on a young willow tree
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