Mistletoe is a parasite plant which feeds off a host tree. The leaves are evergreen, thus making the plant available all year long. It can remain hung indoors throughout the year to thwart lightening and fire, and be replenished for the Christmas season..as for kissing, i agree..just pucker up and go for it with or without the mistletoe!
I am not sure it is available all year. Especially not in the form found at Christmas- you might get berries or buds or twigs other times. While I'm sure all guys would love to have mistletoe under every doorway in their house- it should be saved for the special season of Christmas. (Just ask her- girls like getting kissed. :) Sweep us off our feet and we wouldn't even notice mistletoe or not.) :)
They use the mistletoe for food, mainly its seeds.
He kissed her because she was under the mistletoe.
When displayed at Christmas it brings good fortune throughout the coming year.
Yes, in all states. Including Canada and Mexico.
Mystyldene, all-heal, bird lime, golden bough, and devil's fuge.
It is a medicine.
if you boil mistletoe for over an hour it will turn to soup which use to be a food in china
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The druids harvested mistletoe with a golden knife or sickle, according to Pliny.
A golden sickle.
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The Druids considered mistletoe a holy plant that protected from evil and had great medicinal value. Mistletoe didn't begin quite so well in Norse mythology: the arrow that killed Baldur, beloved of the gods, was carved from mistletoe. The Norse gods then judged that henceforth mistletoe would be under the command of the goddess of love, in order to negate its use for hate--that's one explanation of why those who stand under the mistletoe are expected to kiss. they go kiss kiss under the mistletoe. But that is a lie. They never did