Viscum album

Mistletoe

Viscum album - European Mistletoe - is a hemi-parasite on several species of trees,(often apple trees) from which it draws water and nutrients. It forms a ball up to a metre wide in host trees. It has yellowish-green leathery leaves in opposite pairs and inconspicuous yellowish-green flowers that are pollinated by insects, and followed by white or yellow berries each containing one (very rarely several) seed in the glutinous fruit pulp.

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plant Features

Full sun to partial shade
Occasional watering
Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)
Moist and fertile

plant information

Common name

Mistletoe

Latin name

Viscum album

type

Evergreen Shrub

family

Santalaceae

ph

5.5 - 8.5 Acid - Neutral

Light

Full sun to partial shade
Frost

Full Frost Hardy: 5F (-15°C)

Soil

Moist and fertile
Water

Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

Best time to plant
When the plant will bloom
When to harvest

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Mistletoe is 1.00meters x 1.00meters

1.00 M 1.00 M

Viscum album

Flowering

From Late Winter TO Early Spring

The inconspicuous yellowish-green flowers are dioecious (individual flowers are either male or female), - but only one sex is to be found on any one plant, so for seeds ti be produced both male and female plants must be grown. The plant is not self-fertile.

Planting

From Late Winter TO Early Spring

Planting is not really the correct term! In order to grow mistletoe it is necessary to squash a mistletoe berry into the cracks in the bark of the branch (preferably the lower side) of a host tree (often apple, poplars, chestnut and birch and especially on calcareous soils - definitely NOT coniferous trees) - and wait, and hope!

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