Agrifoglio (Ilex aquifolium)

Holly (Ilex aquifolium)

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Mistletoe (Viscum album)

For decorations typicall of the Christmas period, a lot of people traditionally uses wild plants, especially plants which have a high symbolic value, but they are protected species as endangered. To avoid damaging the already battered biodiversity of our forests, let us not gather these plants:

Holly (Ilex aquifolium), a small shrub that can grow to became a tree. Its leaves are oval, wavy, spiny margins and in winter have red berries;

Butcher’s broom (Ruscus aculeatus), a low evergreen shrub with small thorny leaves and red berries in winter;

Mistletoe (Viscum album), a plant parasitic of poplar, birch trees, almond trees, bushy with small white berries;

Pungitopo (Ruscus aculeatus)

Butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus)

Muschio (Bryophyta)

Musk (Bryophyta)

Musk (Bryophyta), a non-vascular plant, which grows horizontally and mainly grows on rock ledges in the presence of moisture.

In some Italian regions the collection of these species is permitted only in small quantities, anyway must be a good idea to leave plants to live in the wild.

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