FEATURES DISTRIBUTION WHITE MISTLETOE IN THE PARK AND RECREATION AREAS FOREST-STEPPE AND POLESIE OF UKRAINE
Abstract
The results of infestation mistletoe (Viscum album L.) for apple trees (Malus domestica) and other fruit trees and bushes were done.It was shown the negative effect of mistletoe for trees which have agricilture significance and also wild species which used for collection their fruit. Characters of the mistletoe spreading for each apple tree in orchard near Strizhavka village in the Vinnytsia region was analised. Among 302 apple trees 116 were smitted by mistletoe and 68 of them have partially destroed upper branches of tree. On the basis of more extensive research a list of the types of cultivated and wild trees and shrubs that have an agricultural significance, and thus affects the mistletoe was compiled. Methods of reducing of the pressure from the mistletoe on fruit and berries trees were supported
Keywords
mistletoe, Viscum album L., mistletoe invasion, fruit crops, horticulture, fruit