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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Withdrawn library book from the Montgomery County Library, Montgomery County, Texas.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.
Eucalyptus carrying an overload of mistletoes.
The berries are eaten by the Mistletoe birds and then they place the seed back on the tree. A tree with a heavy infestation will eventualy die.
75L Today only for Lazy Sunday! 4 couples poses, plus one single. The couples poses have cute new sculpted heart poseballs, and transferable mistletoe to pass to your sweetheart. The single pose is built-in the mistletoe, just wear it to pose!
The variety common in Europe was imbued with religious significance by its ancient denizens. We find the source of "kissing under the mistletoe" in Celtic rituals and Norse mythology. In Gaul, the land of the Celts, for instance, the Druids considered it a sacred plant. It was believed to have medicinal qualities and mysterious supernatural powers. The following reflections from the Roman natural historian, Pliny the Elder is part of a longer Latin passage on the subject, dealing with a Druidic religious ritual:
Here we must mention the reverence felt for this plant by the Gauls. The Druids -- for thusly are their priests named - hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree that bears it, as long as that tree be an oak.... Mistletoe is very rarely encountered; but when they do find some, they gather it, in a solemn ritual....
After preparing for a sacrifice and a feast under the oak, they hail the mistletoe as a cure-all and bring two white bulls there, whose horns have never been bound before. A priest dressed in a white robe climbs the oak and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloak. Then they sacrifice the victims, begging the god, who gave them the mistletoe as a gift, to make it propitious for them. They believe that a potion prepared from mistletoe will make sterile animals fertile, and that the plant is an antidote for any poison. Such is the supernatural power with which peoples often invest even the most trifling things.