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


Other mistletoe sites

A number of specialist interest mistletoe sites are referred to on other pages. General mistletoe sites in the UK include:

Buying English Mistletoe online - Tenbury English Mistletoe Enterprise (TEME)
A new venture, set up in 2005 to provide a new ways to buy English Mistletoe - the true mistletoe of legend (it's not plastic, and not imported!).

Includes wholesale and retail Christmas orders, a valentine and wedding service, and a Grow-Your-Own Kit and tickets for the Mistletoe Ball. More details at www. tenbury-mistletoe.co.uk

Tenbury Mistletoe Festival
Another new venture, promoting Tenbury Wells as Britain's Mistletoe Capital. The second annual Mistletoe Festival will begin on 25th November 2006, with key events on the 1st-3rd December. These include National Mistletoe Day (1st December). The website details all the Festival events, plus the mistletoe auctions (late November to early December). . www. tenbury-mistletoe-festival.co.uk

Grow your own Mistletoe
A site with advice on how to grow your own, with information on how to order an instruction booklet and a supply of berries. www.mistle.co.uk. The TEME website also has Grow-Your-Own kits.

Two of the most useful international mistletoe sites are:

The Mistletoe Center
Maintained by Brian Geils, RMRS Flagstaff Lab. Excellent resource site, with bibliography, publications etc.  www.rms.nau.edu/mistletoe

The Parasitic Plant Connection
Maintained by Dan Nickrent, Southern Illinois University. An excellent site for all parasitic plants. Particularly valuable for images.  www.science.siu.edu/parasitic-plants