These are the male flowers.

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.

Pattern: Mistletoe Kisses Socks by Knitting Expat Designs

Yarn: Regia Snowflake Color in 7708, .66 skein (302.9 yards)

Needles: US 1

Date started: 1/1/18

Date completed: 1/7/18

Weekend on IOW with Clare at Aria Resorts, Colwell Bay. 3 nights free accommodation as an intro to their resorts. Had a hot tub.

Myself and Christian demonstrate how the straws game works under the mistletoe.

Yes, I know that stuff poking in the top of the picture isn't mistletoe, the actual stuff was suspended on that and didn't quite make the frame.

Seen just outside the Chateau de Vincennes, Paris, France. April 30, 2009.

Okay, there's really no such thing as a mistletoe tree. Mistletoe is often considered a parasite, drawing its minerals and water from the host tree, but it's also considered by scientists as an keystone species, that is, an organism that has a disproportionately pervasive influence over its community. Read all about it on Wikipedia.

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

Part of my Christmas Cards 2011 series. Blogged at mpfotoblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/under-mistletoe.html

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

(Viscum album)

Photo taken at Bergius Botanic Garden Stockholm, Sweden

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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