On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:29:52 -0000, "Jeff Layman"
wrote:

Not really a gardening question, but looking at some mistletoe in local
gardens made me think. It is an evergreen, but in the UK uses deciduous
trees/shrubs as a host. I wondered how it survives when the host is dormant
for so long. It is said that evergreen trees and shrubs can survive cold
weather very well providing their roots are not frozen. But mistletoe must
have frozen "roots" if the host branch is frozen, so how does it deal with
that situation?

Or have I got that completely wrong?

There's a big mistletoe plant growing on a Norway Maple only 50 years
from my house. I shall keep an eye on it to see how it does. It's
about 1 yard across. Nobody has got at it yet!

Pam in Bristol