Subject: Re: Mistletoe and Ulmus

From: [email-masked] (Stephen Chalmers)
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 10:32:10 GMT

[email-masked] wrote:

>[email-masked] (Stephen Chalmers) wrote:

>>A colleague and I were musing today on the frequency of mistletoe on
>>the trees in our fair town, and he observed that he hadn't seen any on
>>the Elms about the place.

>>By crikey, he's right! He's the aboriculturist, and I'm only a dumb
>>gardener :-) so I thought I would ask here to see if anyone knew any
>>reason for this.

>Mistletoe loves Ulmus here in Oklahoma.  It's abundance seems to be
>influenced by the abundance of house sparrows (or other species in
>towns)   When I've tried to collect specimens in the field it's been a
>major undertaking to find it on Ulmus or any other species.  It's
>rarely on Quercus here but does like Celtis, Populus, Gleditsia and
>Robinia.

Thanks for that. I'll have to be a little more observant and see if I
can narrow down the cause. Maybe it is the possums, or perhaps as you
have found, some bird species.

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From: "David C. Taylor" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 00:00:58 -0500

i
Down here in the Big Thicket of East Texas (Pine Forests dominated by 
Pinus taeda and spp.) the Mistletoe seems to grow in all non-Pinus spp., 
ie all deciduous trees.   Big thicket ecology is broken up by oak 
savannahs naturally, and oaks thrive at roadsides and there seems to be 
pleny of mistletoe there.  Pardon the syntax of this post as this editor 
is very klugy.

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From: [email-masked] (Stephen Chalmers)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 10:10:48 GMT

Stephen J Bungard <[email-masked]> wrote:

>In article <[email-masked]>
>           [email-masked] "David C. Taylor" writes:

>> pleny of mistletoe there.  

>Seems to me that we need to be careful here - there are many different 
>species of mistletoe (60+, at least).  Our UK native grows mostly on apples
>(Malus domestica and less commonly M sylvestris), but also on hawthorn 
>(Crataegus monogyna), lime/linden (Tilia spp) and poplars (Populus sp).
>There is also a recent report of it on a low shrubby Cotoneaster.

>I think one of the N American species is known as the cypress mistletoe 
>which I assume means that it grows on a conifer...

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Yeah, my fault. I started this, but didn't qualify my original
statement. The mistletoe around here seems to be a species that is
partial to Quercus spp. but not the 'ol Ulmus.