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Mistletoe and Magic — This Delightful Winter Plant Can Be Grown Close to Home, Here's How
It has its favorite hosts, too. The best trees for mistletoe to grow on are often hawthorn, willow, and many apple varieties. The seeds are also spread by cedar waxwings in the US and the ...
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Mistletoe – famous for stolen holiday kisses – is a parasite that steals water and nutrients from other plants
Sixteen species of the leafless dwarf mistletoe infect only trees in the pine family and ... to put on graves during the particularly hard winter of 1889. In other parts of the world, mistletoe ...
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Christmas plants and flowers: The traditions and science of festive flora
Pajor Pawel/Shutterstock Having trees over the winter period is a tradition so old that it actually ... a tree from the family of plants which includes those that gin is made from. The Christmas ...