The winter holiday season typically involves several types of decorative plants, like Christmas trees, holly, poinsettias, and mistletoe. You may have heard that some of these plants are ...

However, mistletoe does not seem to care about preserving its nutrients because it did not have to work for them anyway. A leaf dropped by mistletoe has many more times the nutrients compared to ...

Mistletoe (Phoradendron serotinum ... mistaken ingestion of a leaf or berry or two is not a lethal mistake. Most of the compounds are at a low enough concentration that a few berries might ...

Mistletoe is best known for its role in holiday festivities, as seen on this Christmas card from 1886, and it features in ancient lore of many cultures, whether Celtic druids or Scandinavian gods ...

There are two other kinds of mistletoe that grow on Sonoma County’s native hardwoods. Big-leaf mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum ssp. macrophylum) appears in riparian areas and is widely ...

There, hard on the banks of the Ohio River and about as far south as one can get in Ohio, American mistletoe grows wild in the boughs of silver maples, elms and other trees. Stand under such a ...

Poinsettia and mistletoe – are two very different plants that have gained popularity as decorations for the holidays. The poinsettia, one of the most popular winter holiday flowers are a ...

But why is it a tradition to kiss underneath mistletoe? The plant, which is actually a parasite, has been used as a symbol of fertility for centuries, even dating back as far as the Celtic Druids ...

Blam! His prey falls to the ground in an inglorious whir: Another sprig of mistletoe has bitten the dust. Those cute little wonders of nature, those totems of romanticism that turn Scrooges into ...

Some mistletoe begs for a sweet kiss under its leaves. And then there's the mistletoe that takes root in your trees, seemingly ready to devour them. Desert mistletoe, a partial parasite that feeds ...

Mistletoe is best known for its role in holiday festivities, as seen on this Christmas card from 1886, and it features in ancient lore of many cultures, whether Celtic druids or Scandinavian gods ...