mistletoe is a common feature in many of our mature tree canopies. The eastern mistletoe (Phoradendron serotinum) grows throughout the southeastern United States and north from New York to Ohio.

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

A sticky substance on the seeds helps them attach to any tree they land on until they germinate and begin to grow. In general ...

A seed of the Alphitonia mistletoe (Amyema conspicua) begins to grow on the branch of a host tree in the Bunya Mountains area of Queensland, Australia. Although parasites, mistletoes do make ...

Susan Shackelford Louisville, Kentucky Mistletoe does not typically favor one species of tree over another. However, older, larger trees are affected more than others because birds often prefer to ...

Around the same time, a mistletoe growing on the trunk of a Christmas tree was sent to the botanist Sir Joseph Banks, whose collections are held at the Museum. Combining two festive plants, it is ...

"For the Noongar people in Western Australia, the mistletoe that grows there is their most sacred plant." Over the past decades, a greater understanding of mistletoe has vindicated that element of ...