Mummy didn’t get caught kissing Santa Claus but threatened native mistletoe has been discovered in a corner of the Eastern Bay of Plenty where it has not previously been recorded. NZ’s three beech ...

Rare native mistletoe (Peraxilla tetrapetala), known as beech mistletoe, has been spotted lately on a number of tracks in Kaitoke Regional Park and Pakuratahi Forest. “We are seeing more and more ...

How many of you knew that we had native mistletoe? No, not the kind that you kiss under at Christmas, but our own Aotearoa-grown native mistletoe with its own amazing story to tell? New Zealand has ...

A holiday merrymaker loitering under the mistletoe may not be thinking much about parasitic plants. That’s a loss, because the world’s mistletologists are making wondrous findings about the more than ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Traditionally, when gardeners found mistletoe lurking in a tree, they cut it out quickly, lest the parasitic intruder cause branches to ...