Contact information and links to further information
This website is run by Jonathan Briggs, based in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire and Brentor, Devon, England. If you have any queries about mistletoe please get in touch (contact details are at the end of the page) - though do please first check your question isn't already answered in the websites linked from this site. Some short-cuts to FAQs and recent comprehensive reviews of mistletoe in Britain and Ireland are given below.
Further information
There is much information within the websites linked from this page. Some common questions may be answered on the FAQs page within the Mistletoe Pages website here: https://mistletoe.org.uk/mp/links/
Two major papers reviewing mistletoe distribution and status in Britain and Ireland have been published in the last few years. These are fully accessible online from the links below:
Mistletoe account for the
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland series
in 2023 (quite technical):
Thomas, P. A., Dering, M.,
Giertych, M. J., Iszkuło,
G., Tomaszewski, D., & Briggs, J. (2023).
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum
album. Journal of Ecology, 111, 701–739.
Website link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14036
Direct link to pdf: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2745.14036
Discussion and review of mistletoe trends in Britain and Ireland in 2021 (also technical, but more readable than the above):
Briggs, Jonathan (2021), Mistletoe,Viscum album (Santalaceae), in Britain and Ireland: a discussion and review of current status and trends. British & Irish Botany Dec 2021 3(4): 419-454Website link: https://doi.org/10.33928/bib.2021.03.419
Direct link to pdf: https://www.britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bib/article/view/108/139
Information Sheets from 2012
There are also 2012 (so slightly out-dated
now) information sheets available from both the Mistletoe Matters or the Mistletoe Pages sites.
Or you can download them direct from the links below:
Contact information
Email: enquiries@mistletoe.org.uk
Phone: 07483 247938 and 01453 791135
For terms of business, including media work, visit www.jonathanbriggs.co.uk
