Loading ...The dead tree in this photo was healthy a few years ago . Then a few small plants began to grow from forks and places where dust and dirt would accumulate . For a while they were decorative , but then the host tree began to get sick looking . It was no longer as verdant as it once was and extremity branches and twigs were becoming denuded . The parasitic plants grew stronger and bigger until now , there is one huge one , up about 20 feet from ground level which is all of six to eight feet tall . The host tree is now dead . I suspect that the parasite will also die off , now that the host is drying up .
