Handmade Mistletoe Sprig

Phoradendron serotinum ssp. tomentosum (P. villosum)

OAK MISTLETOE on host Quercus kelloggii

CALIFORNIA BLACK OAK. Upper side of trail 8, just north of intersection with trail 7.

OH! What's this? MISTLETOE!!! Who's gonna try to kiss me??!!??

Mistletoe growing in a mesquite tree in Texas during the summer.

View On Black

Under the Mistletoe

Halloween Academy Student Print #6

Malos (Mavros's older brother) has a crush on Enelee. Enelee has a crush on Malos. You'd think the two of them would get together, but... Sol the owl is trying to help them along, at least, much to Bertram's (and Mavros's) chagrin.

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wild Mistletoe balls ..

So perfectly spherical ..

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Texas Mistletoe in Tree

Quercus durata var. durata

LEATHER OAK with Phoradendron serotinum ssp. tomentosum (P. villosum)

OAK MISTLETOE. This was the largest leather oak Cindy had ever seen. Reynolds Road, Los Gatos

Don't forget to hang yours!

Crocheted mistletoe

4/12/10

Druids hold a misteltoe ritual at Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire. Experts are concerned that the decline of traditional cider orchards will lead to the loss of the mystical plant which grows on host trees. Mistletoe is regarded as a higly magical plant by druids. Photo Caroline Edge.

Viscum album

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this is the red flowering mistletoe on my plum tree. I kept it just so I could observe these caterpillars from the jezzabel butterfly. however the plant is only a year old and not big enough to take so many grubs without possibly some or all of them dying so I decided to relocate them to another mistletoe on a private which I found to be a different species with green flowers and with different mistletoe grubs. now I will have to watch what will happen.

Mistletoe in the making......I usually see the stuff after it has grown into sizable clumps.

I had never before thought of it in its infancy, but today I did.

parasitic on Agathosma

De Hoop Nature Reserve,

Western Cape,

South Africa

pierce

silver

Girrahween Park, July 2008

Hinton Ampner

mistletoe up in tree near Shenfield common, Brentwood.

Late afternoon. The Church of St Peter in the grounds of Parham House, Sussex. Mistletoe abounds in the tops of the lime trees around the park

Bunches of mistletoe hanging from the branches of a live oak, Sycamore Valley, Danville CA

Mistletoe is not supposed to grow north of South Limburg, but this one has been here in Tiel for quite a few years. They usually grow on apple trees but this is a Tilia (Lime) species

Portrait of my just purchased Specialized Hardrock mountain bike along the Beach Trail at Mistletoe State Park. Actually a chance to catch my breath, mountain biking lots different from riding on the coast.

04/19/10

Photo by Charles Slate

Mistletoe

Owen South Australia

'tis the Season

Leaves and flowers of the mistletoe species Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Loranthaceae), photographed along the Ross River, Townsville, Australia

Many trees in the park have mistletoe growing on them, which stands out all the more in winter, as you might guess.

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This tree is directly across the highway in a neighbors yard. A big ball os mistletoe in the top. Very late evening makes it a silhouette.