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In Britain most mistletoe is found in the south and west midlands, with particularly good populations in Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Gwent and Somerset.
Many assume this to be somehow linked to apple orchards (apple is a favourite mistletoe host, and orchards a favourite habitat). However, there are many apple orchard areas elsewhere in Britain that don’t have mistletoe: local climate is also a key factor.
Have you ever kissed under the mistletoe?
I was wondering as I was out to collect some today about the origin of the tradition associated with kissing under it.
I won't go so far as to steal the information and repost it here, but will say there are a few myths associated with it.
It is interesting to note they originate in norse mythology though. So the next time you kiss under the mistletoe, think on where the tradition arrises from and share it with others.
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Well, i am super late with uploading photos of this guy...
He was made as a donation for a charity event (silent auction) over the holidays.
pucker up!....sssssmoooch!
Mottisfont Gardens near Romsey, Hampshire ... famous for its walled Rose garden designed by Graham Stuart Thomas in the 1970s.
mistletoe branches with berries and feather of common buzzard, both found on the ground in a forest (not at the same time)
author: Jan Helebrant
location: Czech Republic
license CC0 Public Domain Dedication
Mistletoe on a tree on the Bolin Ranch. Forest thinning projects will take pest infestation like this into account when choosing trees to remove. Paraic Neibergs' Bolin Ranch. Ravalli County. June 2022.
I walked around near my home for three hours and found another one except here. its quite rare plant.
Hopefully , Waxwing comes back and feeds these beautiful berries and spread Mistletoe.
Many of the leafless trees sported decorations of mistletoe -- mistletoe is actually a parasitic plant, growing in clumps in the branches.
A dense cluster of western hemlock branches (brooms) caused by hemlock dwarf mistletoe can create valuable wildlife habitat structures. USDA Forest Service photo by Robin Mulvey.
While exploring, Jordan and I found a mistletoe. How could you not take a picture under it? Unfortunately, my favorite is very grainy and this one is blurry. Oh well, I still love it.
Merry Christmas, everyone! This common plant is hemiparasitic, meaning it can photosynthesize but gets water and some nutrients from a wide range of host trees.
This is our only little girl and she is very special! She is very very sweet and tender. She is calm and such a cutie pie! Like a lot of doodles she loves to be held and just wants to be with you all the time!
Wikipedia info:
Mistletoe is the common name for a group of hemi-parasitic plants in the order Santalales that grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub. The name was originally applied to Viscum album (European Mistletoe, Santalaceae), the only species native in Great Britain and much of Europe. The distribution in England appears to be limited to the South of the country.
Mistletoe plants grow on a wide range of host trees, and commonly reduce their growth but can kill them with heavy infestation. Viscum album can parasitise more than 200 tree and shrub species. Almost all mistletoes are hemi-parasites, bearing evergreen leaves that do some photosynthesis, and using the host mainly for water and mineral nutrients. However, the mistletoe first sprouts from bird feces[citation needed] on the trunk of the tree and indeed in its early stages of life takes it nutrients from this source.[ci
European mistletoe, Viscum album, figured prominently in Greek mythology, and is believed to be The Golden Bough of Aeneas, ancestor of the Romans
According to ancient Christmas custom, a man and a woman who meet under a hanging of mistletoe were obliged to kiss. The custom may be of Scandinavian origin.[16] It was described in 1820 by American author 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."[17]
Mistletoe (Phoradendron flavescens) is the state floral emblem for the state of Oklahoma. The state did not have an official flower, leaving mistletoe as the assumed state flower until the Oklahoma Rose was designated as such in 2004.[18]
Mistletoe is the County flower of Herefordshire. It was voted such in 2002 following a poll by the wild plant conservation charity Plantlife.[19]
In England the distribution appears to be limited to the South of England excluding Cornwall according to the distribution map on my RSPB wildlife book.
This was actually one of my first photographs. I really enjoyed making color key images out of everything.