Mistletoe

Not the “bare-your-romantic-soul-to-YouTube” challenge. Just in case, you know, you got them confuse.

All mention of kissing is just for fun.

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The Eden Project – Juliet Hemming MNIMH (part 4/4) (Medical Herbalist)’To Kill or Cure’ Plants with toxins that can kill and in the right dose some can cure, this part covers Mistletoe, Arum Maculatum (Lords and Ladies)

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Plant Names and Notes:

:04 Small field of Elymus glaucus(Blue wildrye) within an exotic grassland
:08 Circium brevistylum(Indian thistle) often confused as a weed, looks like a young bullthistle, common on the new Harmony property
:12 Small patch of Deschampsia cespitosa ssp. holciformis (Tufted hairgrass)grows in moist coastal terraces
:18 Oenothera elata ssp. hookeri(Primrose) suprisingly heavy herbacious plant of many habitats
:23-5 Juncus effusus var. pacificus (Pacific rush)
:27 Lotus purhsianus var. purshianus (Spanish clover) found scattered on dry, cobbley creek beds
:33 Plantago maritimus(Maritime plantian) most of its brethren are weeds, this native grows on baren sea-bluff faces
:36 Abronia umbellata ssp. umbellata (Purple sand-verbena) found in dune scrub (these from Point Sierra Nevada dunes)
:40 Ribes speciosum(Fushia-flowered gooseberry) a common Ribes in the chaparral
:44 Rosa californica, a native rose
:48-52 Gnaphalium ramosissimum (Everlasting) flowers after G. californicum and found in the same habitat (grassland, Coastal scrub)
:53 Scirpus cernuus(Minature bulrush)grows on wet rockfaces, bluffs, gulleys and mouths of creeks
:58 Atriplex californica(California saltbush) grows on semi-bare sea-bluff
1:01 Black Oyster catcher eggs (and crap)
1:04-07 Ruppia maritima(pondweed)found in standing water
1:08-13 Isocoma menziesii, and mouse within it. The Coast goldenbush is a common shrub of sea-bluff scrub and coast scrub and in edges of grasslands
1:15 Holocarpha heermannii(tarweed)the plant, infloresence, ray, and disk flowers
1:22-26 Ambrosia chamissonis(Beach Bur)mats shown form hummocks that make up pioneer dunes
1:27 Jaumea carnosa(fleshy jaumea) forms floating or terrestrial mats with other halophytes
1:30 Flower and leaf of the RARE Calystegia subacaulis opiscopalis(San Luis Obispo morning glory)found in grasslands and not as long as the other more common morning glory, the leaves are also more hairy and grey.
1:34 Atriplex leucophylla(Beach Saltbush), terminal leaves are smaller than the rest of ovate leaves, forms hummocks like Ambrosia chamissonis and usually found together
1:38 Flowers of Eriogonum parvifolium(a buckwheat) found on the tops and faces of sea-bluffs
1:41 Orobanche californica ssp californica(California broom-rape)found on dark, shrink-swell clay N of Arroyo de los Chinos near the edge of the terraces
(Turkey tail bracket fungus)?, didn’t ID the fungus at the time, but looks like it
1:52 Phyllospadix (scouleri), surf-grass growing on highest part of intertidal zone
1:55 Cirsium occidentalis var. occidentalis(Cobbwebbythistle), larger than the RARE Circium occidentalis spp. compactum, incidently common in the San Simeon area
2:00 Pogogyne douglasii(Mesa mint)same habitat as Orobanche, and same abundance; scattered to uncommon, the Pogogyne populations in San Simeon are currently understudy and may be a new species/variation
2:04 Camissonia micrantha(Miniature suncup) common in sandy soil, whether under coast scrub or on dunes
2:07 Eriogonum latifolium(Coast buckwheat)same habitat as E. parvifolium except not so much on the bluff faces as on the edge of terrace
2:10 Lotus heermannii(Heermann’s bird’s-foot trefoil) froms mats on bluffs and under other communities, sometimes sandstone outcrops
2:14 Hemizonia corymbosa ssp. macrocephala(Central coast tarweed) froms wildflower fields in the grassland N of Point Sierra Nevada
2:19 Pterostegia drymarioides(Knotchleaf) tiny member of the Polygonaceae grows uncommonly under coastal scrub shrubs or with ferns on moist rock outcrops
2:21 Lessingia filaginafolia(California-aster), recent name change, flowers in summer, widespread in varying habitats, does well in disturbed ground and among invasives like iceplant and European grasses
2:24 Castilleja (latifolia, foliolosa, or affinis var litoralis) mixed samples when IDed so not sure…either way an Indian Paintbrush
2:27 Phacelia distans common on sandy soils, sometimes with Cirsium occidentalis
2:30 Asclepias fasicularis(Narrow-leaved milkeweed), in wet areas like creek beds or under trees
2:34 Corizanthe staticoides(Turkish rugging)found on the serpentine ridges around Cal Poly’s Horse Cyn and Poly P. hills
2:40 Eriogonum elongatum(Buckwheat)in drier coastal scrub
2:44 The acorn of Quercus durata var. durata, the leather oak, which grows almost exclusively on serpentine
2:46 Another tarweed, Hemizonia congesta ssp. luzulifolia, looks and grows in pastures and roadsides, but not a weed!
2:50 Dudleya sp. found over the Poly P ridge on serpentine, may be the RARE mouse eared serpentine dudleya
2:57 Phoradendron macrophyllum(Bigleaf mistletoe) on neighbor’s ash
2:58 Solanum rostratum(Buffalo berry) 1 of 2 prickly nightshades in CA
3:00 Adiantum aleuticum(5-fingered fern)widespread, this one near the ALBINO REDWOOD
3:05+ Giant Sequoia seeds other plants in “messages” part of channel window

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