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Mistletoe
On 29/11/2012 23:05, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Christina Websell" wrote ... "Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote Bob Hobden writes Seems to be a significant increase in the stuff around here over the last decade. Used to be quite rare but now it's everywhere you look on all sorts of trees. Even on small Rowans in the central reservation of a local road. What's the experience of others? Mistletoe is fairly local. It seems to be most commonly found in chalk country. There used to be a concentration in orchards in the Gloucestershire/Herefordshire/Worcestershire area, but recent records from that area are relatively scarce. The last mistletoe I saw wild was in Coventry a quarter of century ago. I've never seen mistletoe growing wild here in Leics. I have some ancient apple trees and thought about pressing a few seeds from bought stuff into the bark but I found out that's a bad idea as most Christmas mistletoe is imported. I'd really like some home grown mistletoe, does anyone know how to get berries and if I did, is there a skill to it? The berries are not ripe until well after Christmas, Feb/Mar time and just need scraping off onto the top of a suitable branch. It does need light to grow and is very slow. I always understood that it was variety specific, that is mistletoe from apple would only grow on apple, where as that from poplars would only grow on poplars and so on. When you are on the A449 going to the Midlands from South Wales there are loads of trees with mistletoe along the roadside. |
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