Talk:Mistletoe

message: Does mistletoe grow everywhere on Earth?  I wonder because my girlfriend from Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA saw it everywhere, yet in Charlottesville, Virginia where I grew up, I never saw mistletoe.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.45.0.133 (talk) 00:02, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map of where mistletoe grows? 

message: Where did the author for this come up with the etymology of mistletoe? "Tang" is German for seaweed, not branch; "Zweig" is German for branch; even in Old German it was "Zein".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Midnightbrewer (talk • contribs) 04:03, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to have been fixed already. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 02:49, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

text: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mistletoe --Curtis Clark (talk) 15:02, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Any relation to the word cacomistle?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 01:42, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, the three words are entirely unrelated. Mistletoe is Germanic; mazel tov comes from Hebrew mazel "star", and cacomistle is Nahuatl. --ABehrens (talk) 17:04, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: Should this article and Viscum not be merged? hgilbert (talk) 00:58, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Viscum 

message: This article is meant to cover several geenra and many species that go under the name "mistletoe", found in many parts of the world.  However, most of the historic and folkloric material in this article is specific to the European mistletoe Viscum album, and does not apply to most of the other species.  Therefore, that material should be moved to the Viscum album article, leaving here only the botanical material that is common to all those species. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 23:01, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have moved the Viscum album specific material as above. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 01:44, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have also moved the comments specific to V. album and P. leucarpum to their respective articles. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 02:49, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move ''Viscum album'' specific material to its specific article? 

message: The galery images shoudl identify the species. Only the first one seems to be Viscum album. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 01:45, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The first image in the article states that the host is silver birch (as does the image title), however that is not a silver birch. Birches have transverse rather than vertical bark markings. More likely that is a species of Populus, possibly aspen. Plantsurfer 14:31, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identification of species in the gallery 

message: What does this sentence mean?
"Their parasitic lifestyle has led to some dramatic changes in their metabolism.[1]"
"Lifestyle" is inappropriate when speaking of a plant, or anything other than a human.
Although I’d agree that in scientific or technical discourse it would be inappropriate to use the term ‘lifestyle’ to describe a plant, it is overwhelming common to use such terms in everyday language — such and such a plant prefers a sunny well drained site (the plant clearly doesn’t, literally, prefer anything). However this entire sentence doesn’t sit well—the reference refers to a study on single species of over a thousand, this species does not particularly well represent the parasitic biology of most mistletoes, and even so I’m not sure that we can say parasitism has led to metabolic changes. I recommend we remove the statement from the entry. Itisonly4me (talk) 22:41, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate sentence 

message: In the etymology section. Anyone know what "mistle" means? Gef05 (talk) 20:57, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  mistle