New species of the plants are still being discovered, and their parasitic biology is being probed for potential cancer treatments. Mistletoe is shown with a ribbon in sunlight. This plant comes in ...

While poinsettias have an undeserved reputation for being poisonous, as you’d have to eat a few hundred poinsettia leaves to get sick, an expert says two other traditional holiday plants are ...

'Tis the season for festive flora, where two enchanting plants take center stage in our holiday celebrations – the vibrant poinsettia and the mystical mistletoe. Meet the poinsettia, a Christmas star ...

The holidays are here and you are probably seeing many traditional holiday plants for sale at your favorite flower shop and garden center. These may or may not be part of your holiday traditions but ...

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: Wildlife seems to like it as much as we do, and if you’re patient, you can make like a mistle thrush and spread it around Stripped of their leaves, the trees are sculptural ...

As a young child living in Virginia, I recall kids going door to door selling sprigs of mistletoe in the weeks before Christmas. My mother always bought some and hung it along with some holly over a ...

The work of Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox has been viewed on the ensemble’s YouTube channel well over a hundred million times. Most of those doing the viewing, however, are not fully aware of the ...

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University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Mistletoe is a richly symbolic winter plant with an unusual life cycle. With more than half of England’s traditional ...

Mistletoe is a richly symbolic winter plant with an unusual life cycle. With more than half of England's traditional orchards lost since the mid-20th century, it would be easy to assume mistletoe is ...

If you think of Christmas and what greenery goes with the holiday, several species of flora probably come to mind. Probably high on the list is mistletoe, which is seen as a symbol of love and luck in ...