Oftentimes, homeowners do not realize that they have mistletoe in their trees until the winter when deciduous trees lose their leaves. It is then that the mistletoe clumps are easily recognized.

Mistletoes are a motley group of plants defined more by their lifestyle than their lineage. They all have three features in ...

Different dodders prefer different host plants. Hosts include alfalfa, asparagus, bindweed, pigweed, lambsquarters, Russian ...

Sixteen species of the leafless dwarf mistletoe infect only trees in the pine family and ... to put on graves during the ...

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 ...

Oaks were seen as sacred trees and the fruit of the mistletoe was a symbol of life in the dark winter months. In Scandinavia and other parts of northern Europe like Germany, 'Jul' was the name ...

Mistletoe is best known for its role in ... species often infest stately trees such as oaks or poplar: In winter, when these trees are leafless, the parasites’ green, Truffula-like clumps ...