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Definition of False mistletoe
1. Noun. American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe.
Group relationships: Genus Phoradendron, Phoradendron
Specialized synonyms: American Mistletoe, Phoradendron Flavescens, Phoradendron Serotinum
Generic synonyms: Parasitic Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of False Mistletoe
Literary usage of False mistletoe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"False Hellebore. See Veratrum. False Honeysuckle. A popular name of our native
Azaleas. False Indigo. See Amorpha. false mistletoe. American Mistletoe. ..."
2. Bulletin of the National Research Council by National Research Council (U.S.) (1921)
"(f) false mistletoe (project Pd-7, Di). Begun 1916. Publications by JR Weir: "Mistletoe
Injury to Conifers in the Northwest," Dept. of Agr. Bulletin 360, ..."
3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"Our American variety is called a false mistletoe, but it has inherited all the
store of traditions and legends gathered around the European mistletoe. ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1910)
"Finally, the false mistletoe (P. californicum) is entirely Lower Sonoran in choice
of hosts and hence in distribution. Its leafless character fits well into ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"false mistletoe Flowers small, dioecious, in short catkin-like jointed spikes,
usually several to each short fleshy bract or scale, and sunk in the joint. ..."
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