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Decked the halls with boughs of holly yet? Or maybe rosemary, boxwood, pine, spruce or cedar? The tradition of bringing green things into the house when everything outside is leafless and barren has as much symbolic meaning for us today as it must have had for people in the distant past. , One of these popular holiday evergreens is the Christmas mistletoe. We tend to thank of mistletoes as kissing plants and give them little thought any other time. But many of the ancients considered them sacred, and they have fascinating natural histories.
Consider how they make a living. Most mistletoes are hemiparasites, green plants that attach themselves to the branches of trees. They have fungal-like roots that penetrate below the tough outer bark into the vascular tissues of the tree. But not to get food.
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