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Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract water and nutrients from the host plant. The name mistletoe originally referred to the species Viscum album (European mistletoe, of the family ...
Viscum album is a species of mistletoe in the family Santalaceae, commonly known as European mistletoe, common mistletoe or simply as mistletoe (Old English mistle). [2] It is native to Europe and western and southern Asia. [3] Viscum album is a hemiparasite on several species of trees, from which it draws water and nutrients. It has a ...
Phoradendron leucarpum is a species of mistletoe in the Viscaceae family which is native to the United States and Mexico. Its common names include American mistletoe, eastern mistletoe, hairy mistletoe and oak mistletoe. It is native to Mexico and the continental United States. [ 3] It is hemiparasitic, living in the branches of trees.
The mistletoe smooch wouldn’t have existed as a popular tradition prior to 1720 because John Colbatch, an English apothecary and physician, wrote an extensive book, 1719, and a pamphlet, 1720 ...
Have you ever wondered why we kiss under the mistletoe? This quirky Christmas tradition has a very interesting origin story, so read up before you pucker up this holiday season!
Rhipsalis baccifera, commonly known as the mistletoe cactus, is an epiphytic cactus which originates from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Florida. It is also found throughout the tropics of Africa and into Sri Lanka where it is known in Sinhala as nawahandi ( නවහන්දි ). [ 2] This is the only cactus species naturally ...
Ileostylus micranthus is a mistletoe native to New Zealand and the Norfolk Islands. [2] In New Zealand it is also known by its Māori name Pirita. [3] Mistletoes are stem hemiparasites that live on the limbs of a host tree or shrub and consume water, nutrients transported by water, and organic solutes. The Loranthaceae and Viscaceae are the two ...
Dendrophthoe vitellina, commonly known as long-flowered- or apostle mistletoe, is a hemiparasitic plant of the mistletoe family Loranthaceae. The genus Dendrophthoe comprises about 31 species spread across tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia. Despite being collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander in 1788, and depicted in Banks ...