Little Known Mistletoe Facts
♦Mistletoe is an evergreen parasite. That means it doesn’t drop its leaves in winter and doesn’t grow in soil. It germinates and lives on another plant and dies when the host dies.
♦Mistletoe puts a special root system called “haustoria” into its host, a tree, and then extracts nutrients from that tree.
♦Though you can sometimes purchase seed of the American Mistletoe Phoradendron leucarpum, it is almost never successfully cultivated. Birds are most often responsible for “planting” mistletoe on trees by consuming the berries elsewhere and then rubbing their beaks on the tree or leaving droppings that contain the seeds.
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