In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some interpretations suggest that, “kissing under the mistletoe symbolizes forgiveness, ...

Blackburn with Darwen Council has approved a new policy on the management of the borough’s trees which will hopefully prevent ...

Want to keep your cats out of the Christmas tree? A behavioral expert weighs in on the best ways to keep your feline friend ...

If mistletoe's status as a nutrient-stealing freeloader has been cooling your holiday ardor, new research led by an Oregon ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

Christmas trees—and conifers in general—have made some surprising cameos throughout U.S. history, author Trent Preszler ...

Mistletoe is a richly symbolic winter plant with an unusual life cycle. With more than half of England's traditional orchards ...

Your Money Tree, also known as the Guiana chestnut (Pachira aquatica), is growing in a rather small pot. When grown on a ...

That strange ball of leaves and twigs in your empty tree isn't quite what you think it is... and you definitely don't want to ...

Even the little pinky, which looks like a contender for the most pointless appendage on the human body, does its job and does it well. Though all of the toes are used in keeping us balanced and moving ...

The practice dates to ancient Egypt and Rome, where hieroglyphs from 1400 B.C. depict espaliered fig trees to maximize fruit ...