Kissing under the mistletoe Mistletoe Porcelain - Boch Freres' 'Gui' pattern European Mistletoe - Viscum album Viscum album - botanical drawing American Mistletoe - Phoradendron species Saucy Mistletoe Postcard - Raphael Kirchner c 1910 Druids Cutting Mistletoe

World Mistletoes - Viscaceae


There are over 400 species of mistletoe in the Viscaceae family.  Most belong to Viscum (100 species in the Old World) or Phoradendron (200 species in the New World).  Many are pictured or described on other pages.  This page simply summarises some of them.


V album pic

 Viscum album - the European mistletoe, with its distinctive branching

 

V album photo Pic JB

 Viscum album - the European mistletoe, in context

 

V cruciatum. Pic JB

Viscum cruciatum - the red-berried mistletoe of Spain

 

V triflorum/nervosum. Pic Neil Bromhall

Viscum triflorum - an African mistletoe, growing on a mangrove tree

 

V minimum Pic JB

Viscum minimum - an African mistletoe, with reduced leaves, growing on Euphorbia

 

Phoradendron pic

 Phoradendron flavescens - one of the American Christmas mistletoes

 

Phoradendron photo

 Phoradendron flavescens - one of the American Christmas mistletoes, in context

 

Phoradendron after harvest

 Phoradendron flavescens - one of the American Christmas mistletoes, cut for Christmas

 

Arceuthobium pic. JB

 An Arceuthobium species - one of the Dwarf Mistletoes of North America

 

A. americanum, Wells Gray Park, BC. Pic JB

 Arceuthobium americanum, a Dwarf Mistletoe growing on Pine in Canada