Best smelling desert flower at TFL

Vachellia constricta, often known as the whitethorn acacia, is a shrub native to Northwest Mexico, the Southwestern United States, and a quite disjunct eastern population in Virginia.  79,86,50,0,W

plant find...

Maria the botanist was out today and I showed her a strange plant I had found recently on the south 20.  Looked to me like one kind of plant growing out of another and I was right.  Seems one of my wild Acacia shrubs has a parasitic mistletoe growing out of it.  Mistletoe is the common name for a group of hemi-parasitic plants in the order Santalales that grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub.  I never knew that.  I thought they only sprouted at Christmas time over a doorway.  90,99,73,0,B