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Arthur's Pass, Canterbury, New Zealand
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California, United States
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Left: Indian sandalwood (Santalum album); native to the Indian subcontinent. IUCN: VulerableRight: Iliahi (Santalum freycnetianum); endemic to Oahu (Hawaii, USA). While not rare, it is certainly not as common as it once was before the mass logging for the fragrant heartwood. See "The Sandalwood Trade Story"
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Santalum_freycinetianumThe two red-flowering species found on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. A third species is the green-flowering iliahialoe (Santalum ellipticum); endemic and found on several of the Hawaiian Islands.For more information on iliahi and iliahialoe see
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close up image of Comandra umbellata FALSE TOADFLAX at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - a lone specimen stem just breaking ground in the early spring
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2012-05-11 Burgenland, district Neusiedl/See, meadow near Zitzmannsdorfer Wiesen (outside National Park)German name: Mittel-LeinblattGenus Thesium consists of a very few semi-parasitic species, of which none is too common and most are very rare. This one here, Th. linophyllum, is common enough only in Eastern, Pannonian Austria but rare elsewhere.Even so it does appear rarer than it seems to be because most of its habitats (dry, nutrient-poor meadows) have been destroyed in the last two or three decades, and in its habitats their tiny flowers, pretty only when you look at them from close, are overlooked by most, as their habitats are home to several more spectacular orchid and iris species. They're spectacular enough for my money, those Thesium flowers which don't even have a 'proper' common name.
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Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique
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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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California, United States
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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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Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
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Longreach, Queensland, 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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An interesting, widespread, semi-parasitic native species (this is not the invasive/weedy toadflax) with an unfortunate common name. It doesn't have any special species preferences in terms of what roots it attaches itself to.Comandra umbellata (L.) Nutt. var. pallida (A. DC.) M.E. Jones has also been recognized as a subspecies rather than as a variety, i.e., Comandra umbellata (L.) Nutt. subsp. pallida (A. DC.) Piehl. The tepals in this family can form a fleshy cup as above. Despite having seen this taxon in flower a number of times before, this is the only time that I can recall seeing it in flower as shown above.June 7, 2009, Salt Lake County, Utah foothills, near top of northwestern facing, exposed, steep slope, at about 4,865 ft.
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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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July 18, 2012, Rose Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona
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A local said the rosette becomes the local "matapolo" that kill orange trees. Sprouts or seedlings. It's unclear from the photo whether the fruit emerged from the stem or whether a frugivore left the seeds on a branch.
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Found growing on a legume (probably Prosopis). Feb 12, 2010. Sabino Creek, Arizona.
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Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia