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Viscum album (4810' N 1632' E)

Image of European mistletoe

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2011-01-06 Vienna XXII. district/ Lower Austria, district Gnserndorf (Lobau 155 m AMSL).Mistletoe bearing fruit: they're quite sticky and for this reason annoyingly stick to the beaks of birds eating them, which is why they try and get rid of them by rubbing their beak on twigs of other trees - which, in turn, is the method of spreading mistletoe seeds: cleverly thought out by evolution, don't you think?German name: Laubholz-Mistel

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