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Phoradendron pauciflorum
Fir mistletoe is a hemiparasitic shrub that grows on white fir trees in coniferous forests of California, Arizona and Baja California. It is not usually grown as a garden plant, and it depends on its host tree for water and nutrients.
Phoradendron pauciflorum is a species of flowering plant in the sandalwood family known by the common name fir mistletoe. It is native to coniferous forests in California, Arizona, and Baja California.
This mistletoe is a parasitic plant on its single known host tree, the white fir (Abies concolor). It is a shrub producing many erect green branches which can exceed half a meter long. Its stems are lined with pairs of small, oppositely arranged leaves with widely lance-shaped blades up to 2.5 centimeters long.
Phoradendron aequatoris · Bollean mistletoe · Mesquite mistletoe · Phoradendron canzacotoi · Downy mistletoe · Cory's mistletoe · Dense mistletoe · Juniper mistletoe · Oak mistletoe · Incense cedar mistletoe · Colorado Desert mistletoe · Phoradendron madisonii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phoradendron pauciflorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
