Witch Brooms


From Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition, 1910)

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Witch Brooms, or "Birds' Nests," in botany, peculiar broom-like growths often seen on the branches of many trees. They are a dense development of branching twigs formed at one place on a branch as the result of the irritation set up by the presence of a mite or a fungus.