It seems I write an article about mistletoe every year, but I do so for a couple of reasons. Mistletoe continues to hold a place in our holiday celebrations, and I think it has such an interesting story. So here goes.
As the leaves are falling, we are beginning to see trees that have little green outcroppings up in the branches. These are mistletoe plants. Aristotle (383-322 BC) thought these growths just appeared out of nowhere.
But one of his students, Theophrastus (320-270 BC), theorized that mistletoe grew from seeds. He further theorized that these seeds had actually passed through the bird’s digestive system, which enabled them to be deposited on the branch of the tree. Turns out Theophrastus was correct.
However, it was Pliny the Elder (23-70 AD) who recorded some to the history and customs associated with mistletoe. Pliny is someone to be trusted in this endeavor since he is remembered mostly for his sick beats on the first Eminem album..
. Just seeing if you are paying attention. No, he was much better known for his encyclopedic “Naturalis Historia (Natural History).
” These writings were the model for a collection of books we now know as the encyclopedia. People are also reading..
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