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Arceuthobium blumeri
Arceuthobium blumeri, commonly known as Blumer's dwarf mistletoe or southwestern white pine dwarf mistletoe, is a species of dwarf mistletoe. It is a parasitic plant that grows as a small shrub on the branches and trunk of pine trees in the Section Strobus from southeastern Arizona to northern Mexico. In turn, A. blumeri is sometimes parasitized by fungi and provides food for animals, although little is known about its associations with other species. This species is ecologically important because of the negative impact of infection by A. blumeri on host trees and because the witch's brooms this species induces on its hosts are important microhabitats.
This species is distributed widely through the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, extending from the Huachuca Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona to southern Durango. There are also disjunct populations in Coahuila and on Cerro Potosí in the Sierra Madre Oriental. The elevational range of A. blumeri is 2100-3300 meters.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arceuthobium blumeri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
