December is the darkest and quietest month of the year. Winter spends its final days in silence, guarding the seeds of the many summer and autumn fruits, waiting for the light to slowly make them germinate, restoring them to a thousand lives.Giuseppe Ungaretti writes: “Like a seed, my soul also […]
Viscum album
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In winter, in the woods and mist-shrouded countryside, on the trunks and branches of now-bare deciduous trees, one sometimes sees, alas, increasingly rarely, bushy balls—tangles of greenish branches and leaves: these are the Mistletoe plants! Mistletoe (Viscum album L. 1753) belongs to the Santalaceae family. It is a bushy evergreen […]