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MISTLETOE - Card design (18)
Taken 18 October 2015. High key genre
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"Mistletoe Cooties"
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Stay-cation, 09/24/2022, Franklin, TN
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reminds me of the trees in the Dr Seuss book, The Lorax. The mistletoe stays green all winter at the expense of the host plant.
Nectariniidae:
Dicaeum hirundinaceum
The tiny Male Mistletoe bird having a drink. It is so shy.
Photo: Fred
Viscum album – the original mistletoe of European myth, legend and tradition.
The word 'mistletoe' derives from the older form 'mistle', adding the Old English word tān (twig).
'Mistle' is common Germanic (Old High German mistil, Middle High German. mistel, Old English mistel, Old Norse mistil).
In France it was often given as a Porte-Bonheur - a gift for luck, particularly for the New Year, rather than at Christmas.
This association with peace may have origins as ancient as the kissing custom, as the plant is associated with peace in the Norse, Greek and Roman traditions about mistletoe.
The peace association was a tradition in Britain too at one time, though it has become eclipsed by the kissing custom feature.
During the First World War embroidered ‘silk’ postcards sent from the Front at Christmas often depicted mistletoe, perhaps emphasising mistletoe’s value both as a symbol of peace and as a message for loved ones.
There are many explanations of the kissing tradition – though most relate either to the Norse legend of Baldr or to the view that mistletoe is an ancient symbol of fertility.
The most obvious fertility aspect is that, as an evergreen growth on a deciduous host, mistletoe, as a parasitic can be seen as symbolic of the continuing ‘life-force’ (and vitality/fertility) of the host tree through the winter (which may be particularly significant if the tree is your sacred oak, in Druidic traditions).
According to the custom, any two people who meet under a hanging of mistletoe are obliged to kiss. The custom may be of Scandinavian origin.
It was described as early as 1820 by Washington Irving in his ‘The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon’:
‘The mistletoe is still hung up in farm-houses and kitchens at Christmas, and the young men have the privilege of kissing the girls under it, plucking each time a berry from the bush. When the berries are all plucked the privilege ceases!’
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No such 'animal' of course as mistletoe is a parasite. I understand it likes apple trees. Sorry, not allowed to pick and besides, could not possibly reach any!
Stay-cation, 09/24/2022, Franklin, TN
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mistletoe, any of many species of parasitic plants of the families Loranthaceae, Misodendraceae, and Santalaceae, especially those of the genera Viscum, Phoradendron, and Arceuthobium (all of which are members of the family Santalaceae). Most mistletoes parasitize a variety of hosts, and some species even parasitize other mistletoes, which in turn are parasitic on a host. They are pests of many ornamental, timber, and crop trees and are the cause of abnormal growths called “witches’ brooms” that deform the branches and decrease the reproductive ability of the host. Some species are used as Christmas decorations and are associated with a holiday tradition of kissing
Most berries have been white but I found these that are pink!!They infest Juniperus californica of which we have a lot of on our property. We at least twice a year remove all the mistletoe we can find on the junipers.
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Stay-cation, 09/24/2022, Franklin, TN
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Atkinsonia ligustrina
A rare plant (a maximum geographic range of less than 100 km). Most Australian Mistletoe are parasites on other plants, especially eucalypts. However, Atkinsonia ligustrina is unusual in that it is the only one that is terrestrial, and not epiphytic. It is a hemi–parasite on the roots of neighbouring trees and shrubs: it obtains nutrients from them, but its own leaves make chlorophyll.
Took me ages to work out what this was ... now I understand why.