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Black Dwarf-Mistletoe

Arceuthobium nigrum

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 2, May 0, June 0, July 1, August 0, September 1, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Mexico4
Puebla3
Guanajuato1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
Ordersandalwoods, mistletoes, and allies · Santalales
Familysandalwood family · Santalaceae
GenusDwarf-Mistletoes · Arceuthobium

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Black Dwarf-Mistletoe with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.