According to a fact sheet from Colorado State University, the plants siphon nutrients and water from the host tree, causing the limb to swell under the dwarf mistletoe. Unlike the mistletoe, white ...

Sixteen species of the leafless dwarf mistletoe infect only trees in the pine family and are mostly found along the West ...

Dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium genus): Dwarf mistletoe are a fully parasitic species of mistletoe that feed exclusively on conifers like pine, cedar, and spruce trees. Dwarf mistletoe will ...

Native Monterey pine trees in Cambria, ... Jonathan Gee walked up to the young trees — none more than 20 feet tall — and examined the western gall rust and mistletoe infections affecting them.

A dead pine tree is photographed above on August 10, 2022, in South Lake Tahoe, ... "There is also a need to remove trees that are heavily infested with dwarf mistletoe, ...

In the case of Lone Pine State Park, it displays general forest condition issues, including a high degree of dead and dying trees, insect mortality and a high percentage of dwarf mistletoe, a ...