Louie asked me if there would be a way for people to see how mistletoe grows. I did an image search at Google and came up with this: (click). This photo gives an idea how it looks in a tree that is badly infected - like a number of trees in my neighborhood. This one (click) is small, but very clear. The kids harvest the stuff and sell it outside supermarkets for a quarter a sprig. They don't get many customers, but the overhead is lower than Kool-Aid.
I guess it's romantic and all for most people - but for us in Northern California, it's a problem. If you want an education about mistletoe, click here.
-Joe Offer-