Jane Perrone profiles the plants that make Christmas, from the sturdy sprout to the beautiful but misnamed Christmas rose
Mistletoe is, as National Geographic remarked last year, “everyone’s favourite parasite”, although the pedant in me has to point out that it’s actually a hemiparasite, because as well as ligging nutrients off its host plant via a connecting organ known as the haustorium, mistletoe does provide some of its own energy via photosynthesis.
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