{"id":5616,"date":"2013-12-15T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5616"},"modified":"2014-01-30T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T07:56:20","slug":"wa-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/15\/wa-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"WA Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5556\" alt=\"20131215a 030\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-030-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-030-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-030.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The West Australian Christmas Tree (<a href=\"http:\/\/florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au\/browse\/profile\/2401\" target=\"_blank\">Nuytsia floribunda<\/a>) is the largest mistletoe in the world. \u00a0It is an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hemiparasite\" target=\"_blank\">obligate root photosynthetic hemiparasite<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; which means it cannot complete its lifecycle without a host, but it does photosynthesise\u00a0and just obtains water and mineral nutrients from the host plant. \u00a0It\u00a0parasites roots of lots of plants up to 50m away rather than the stem of an individual plant. \u00a0 It can grow up to 10m tall and flowers from October to December &#8211; hence the name. \u00a0 Initially buds are yellowy-green, but as they mature, \u00a0they go bright orange. \u00a0The brightness of the flowers will vary from day to day depending on sunlight intensity. \u00a0 This photo was taken on a 38 Deg C day. \u00a0We only have one specimen on the road reserve beside the property and would love to have more, but they are easy to propagate, but notoriously difficult to bring to maturity, only surviving for a couple of years. \u00a0 Young trees will only flower after burning in a bushfire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5557\" alt=\"20131215a 024\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-024-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-024-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-024.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Australian Christmas Tree (Nuytsia floribunda) is the largest mistletoe in the world. \u00a0It is an\u00a0obligate root [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-030.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5770,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions\/5770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}