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  1. After solving the Guardian Quiptic clue [Fancy item lost close to store is evergreen at Christmas (9)]… … I spent way too long looking at different subspecies of European mistletoe, including the weird ones that parasitise conifers 😅 (photo: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viscum_album_subsp_abietis_300314.jpg)
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      Mistletoe on a fir or pine just looks so incongruous, but there are subspecies in Central Europe which do exactly that, here’s Viscum album subsp. austriacum: gbif.org/species/8411982
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