Mistletoe Root pieces Viscum album

LATIN NAME: Viscum album

COMMON NAME: Mistletoe

LATIN NAME: Viscum album

COMMON NAME: Mistletoe

The mistletoe is the green ball of the winter tree, and the small, yellow-green flowers open in the axils of the paired leaves. The semi-parasitic, evergreen shrub grows in the rounded clumps on the branches of the host trees, the paired, leathery, green leaves and the small, yellow-green flowers in the axils through the spring, to be followed by the clusters of the small, waxy, white berries, one of the fine, curious sights of the winter tree. The plant has a very long record in the old winter tales of the cold lands. It is a plant of the open, sunny, sheltered branches of the host tree. The white berries are for the eyes only, not for eating.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The mistletoe is a curious subject of the plant science, and the green balls keep showing up in the work on the semi-parasitic plants. The way the plant draws the water and the minerals from the host branches has been examined closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the semi-parasitic plants, the bird-dispersed berries and the members of the sandalwood family. The paired, leathery leaves and the rounded clumps have also made it a fine study plant, and the mistletoe is a regular subject of the work on the winter balls of the cold world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The mistletoe is a fine, curious plant of the winter tree and the old garden. The rounded clumps of the paired, leathery, green leaves hold the fine, green ball of the winter tree, and the clusters of the small, waxy, white berries open through the late autumn, drawing the birds of the cold season and feeding the old winter tales of the cold lands, grown for the winter balls rather than for the table. The plant is one of the fine choices for the old tree, the orchard and the study collection, and it has been written up in the botanical and the cultural papers for the winter balls and the very long history. It is a fine, curious plant of the open, sunny, sheltered branches of the host tree.

Choose a young, healthy host tree with the open, sunny crown, and the mistletoe will take hold in the years ahead.

Choose a young, healthy host tree with the open, sunny crown, and the mistletoe will take hold in the years ahead.

To grow the mistletoe from seed, press the small, round seeds onto the bark of the young host tree in the early spring, firming each seed against a branch in the open, sunny part of the crown. Keep the host tree healthy and the seedlings will root into the bark in their own good time, the green balls forming over the years ahead.

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