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Re: TT: Tree-top shrubs - an epiphyte?



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RT Ellsberry wrote:
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>  To TreeTown -
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> Last week I enjoyed a long overdue road-trip down the US east coast
> to visit my beloved Live Oaks in picturesque Charleston SC.  Along
> the way my traveling buddy, Lizard (that's his Ham radio handle, OK)
> noticed leafy growth high up in the bare trees that I had missed and
> couldn't explain.  It was as if there were round shrubs living in
> the upper reaches of the trees, perhaps 2-feet in diameter (<1m).  We
> did not have the chance to investigate, and it seemed that these plants
> were so far up that they could not have been rooted to the ground,
> like an ivy might be.  


Misletoe.
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