However, if you plan to use mistletoe as part of your holiday celebration ... Mistletoe: A merry Christmas decoration or menace to trees? It's both.

And why are people so amorous when they find themselves beneath it? Mistletoe, a parasitic plant, is actually accustomed to the suspension: In nature, it grows only on other trees’ branches.

Orest lyzhechka/Shutterstock Just like the Christmas tree, mistletoe was also originally used in pagan festivities over the winter period before being co-opted for Christian celebrations. There is no ...

Mistletoe is believed to be a symbol of ... and these eventually became Christmas carols. No proper Christmas celebration is complete without a nativity scene that shows Jesus Christ’s birth ...