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European mistletoe (Viscum album) attached to a dormant common aspen (Populus tremula) Mistletoe in an apple tree. 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 ...
The Augusta, Lady Gregory play called The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children is a fable in the invented Kiltartan dialect based on Irish mythology and folklore. The Golden Apples is the name of Southern writer, Eudora Welty's, fourth short story collection, published in 1949. The stories are interrelated and center around the citizens ...
Mistletoe has some unique characteristics and history that go way beyond smooching under the sprigs during the holidays. 8 Surprising Facts About Mistletoe You Probably Didn't Know Skip to main ...
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 as well as to western and southern Asia. [3] V. album is found only rarely in North America, as an introduced species.
There is an ingenious trick that the mistletoe plant pulls upon unsuspecting feathered dinner guests. And it helps it to spread among yonder branches. Mistletoe is a Christmas tradition.
Ladon was the serpent-like dragon that twined and twisted around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples. In pursuance of his eleventh labour, Heracles killed Ladon with a bow and arrow and carried the apples away.
Most mistletoe traded in the U.K. comes from mistletoe on apple trees in orchards in the English midlands, while the plant in the U.S. comes from a variety of trees, often from Southern states ...
A priest in white clothing would cut the mistletoe with a golden sickle and allow it to fall onto a white cloak; two white bulls would then be sacrificed. According to Pliny, it was believed that mistletoe in a drink would make any barren animal fertile and that it was a remedy for all poisons.