The wonderful Anony has been blogging awesome photos of Australian Christmas trees. It reminded me of the WA version so after 30 seconds of searching (you gotta love Google) I have not only found a photo, but also the information that it is a parasitic tree.Okay so it flowers at the right time to be identified as a 'Christmas tree' but surely the parasitic nature isn't quite the right association for this time of the year (yes I am biting my tongue regarding crass commercialism and obvious parallels but I am not saying it because I am being respectful).
But thinking about it, all mistletoe's are parasitic - were they the only green things available in the snowy wastelands of the northern hemisphere apart from the conifer? Somehow kissing under a parasite doesn't have quite the same ring to it anymore. Hmm, something else to Google ....
3 comments:
AWWWWWW, the Western Australian Christmas Tree is still beautiful to look at MountainGirl! Besides, who is responsible for making those in nature 'parasites'? Hheheee
OOHHHH THAT sort of parasite! "As the plant is partially reliant on a host plant for nutrition". I was thinking it was an introduced weed sort of parasite OOPS :)
Bugger the mistletoe..Australian or traditional...im plastered in the stuff and it aint working...lol
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