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Moonseed and Mistletoe: A Book of Poisonous Wild Plants by Carol Lerner, Morrow Junior Books, New York, 1988.
Withdrawn library book from the Montgomery County Library, Montgomery County, Texas.
It's a shame to take a good book like this out of circulation just because books with color photographs are preferred.
I have mistletoe that grows on my hickory trees in the winter, all the leaves are gone, but you see a hint of green every now and then. It is mistletoe, SO ladies since I was under the mistletoe when I took this picture..........
Mistletoe is a parasite that steals the water and nutrients from trees. There are many poor, dead trees in our part of Texas, that have had the life sucked out of them by mistletoe. My husband thought I should get a picture to share with others who have never seen this before, but as I suspected, the original picture wasn't all that interesting, so I played with it a bit. I think you can still see the devastation to this tree by the mistletoe, and get a feel of what it looks like.
I've been standing under this mistletoe for hours, but nothing happened ... Also, I am wondering whether the cult of this parasitic plant is telling us something about our society.
These mistletoe flowers were growing on a branch only about 6 inches from the ground at O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat, Lamington National Park. I haven't found the species ID yet.
Viscum album subsp. abietis (Santalaceae). Having only seen Mistletoe in the UK growing in orchards, on Poplars etc, imagine my surprise on walking into the Schwarzwald and seeing lots of Mistletoe on firs. All Abies alba (White Fir), on older trees & high up, but occasionally on the lower branches.