The Mistletoe Queen holds the bunch of Male Mistletoe

My Specialized Hardrock parked on the trail above Cliatt Creek.

04/23/10

Photo by Charles Slate

A magnificent tree of Mistletoe on the banks of Great Water,Latimer,Bucks.,

Mistletoe Misfits, ready for Heritage Park Fitness' Vixen Muscle Holiday Hustle in Harker Heights, TX, benefiting Families in Crisis, Killeen. Happy holiday running!

(Photographed while on assignment for Killeen Daily Herald.)

Mistletoe

Mistletoe(Viscum album) in a poplar, Limburg along the Geul.

Mistletoe cluster cut from the branch of a Mesquite Tree.

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Christmas

Growing in abundance this year

SingStar songs that inly get wheeled out once a year... unless we get very drunk :p

at my brother and sister-in-law's on christmas eve.

Mistletoe Tenbury 2014

Funnycats Xmas Day 2009, Central London.

Members of the Mistletoe Foundation Harvesting the Mistletoe in Tenbury Wells 2009

Huascaran National Park

we came up short

Mistletoe on a gum. Looking across the river.

I am guessing this might be Amyema pendula, Drooping mistletoe., Long Pocket, Brisbane River.

Finished ornament face of mistletoe ornament, commissioned piece. Pairs with rudolph ornament. September 2014.

Copperfoil method, 2005

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Growing on Apple.

Mistletoe?

According to Wikipedia -" these plants grow attached to and penetrate within the branches of a tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they absorb nutrients from the host plant." However Jill Dawson from ournativegarden.com.au points out that trees in a weedy environment " eventually will become stressed and vulnerable to being

overburdened with mistletoe or fungal problems through lack of micorrhizal fungi in the soil and

the diversity of insects and vertebrates to have the proper balance of predator and pest species."

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I really wish this picture had turned out. Uneditted version of a closeup at the OOC party.

At the February camp out on the Scenic Loup near Ajo, AZ.

They say there are no mistletoes in Scandinavia )

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