- Author: Lynn M. Sosnoskie
Published on: December 8, 2014
It's that time of year again. Time for egg-nog, time for gingerbread cookies, time for stringing outdoor lights that have become tangled up into a massive, intractable knot, and time for decorating the home and hearth with weeds.
What? Weeds?
Yes, weeds. That includes Christmas favorites of mistletoe, ivy, and poinsettia.
Mistletoe (Phoradendrom spp., Arceuthobium spp., Viscum spp.): Mistletoes are evergreen, flowering plants that parasitize other plants to acquire water and nutrients. Mistletoes can, collectively, infest many different species of trees, including: oaks, alders, birches, box elder, zelkova, cottonwood, walnut, some conifers, etc...and...
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