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2011-11-26 Lower Austria, district Wiener Neustadt-Land - Fischauer Berge (420 msm Quadrant 8162/4). German names: Gewöhnlich-Efeu on Rot-Föhre Ivy is not a parasite in the proper sense - but a 'light parasite' still: it uses trees to grab more of sunlight than 'rightfully' would be theirs, so to speak. On few specimen this could be so clearly like on this huge specimen here, almost as thick as the Scots pine which it is using as a climbing tree: the ivy stem is almost half as thick as that of the pine! See also other shots of the same one: - close-up of lower stems (2) (3) - crown - not much sun left for the pine