Mistletoe - Viscum album

Yellowish green shrub, regularly branched, hairless forming rounded clumps up to one metre across on tree branches. Leaves oblong, leathery, opposite and untoothed. Flowers inconspicuous, unisexual with male and female on separate plants, 4 parted in small stalkless clusters. Fruit a white berry during winter.

Orchards and places where the host trees are numerous.

Flowering February to April.

Parasitic on deciduous trees, especially Apple, Lime, Hawthorn and Poplar.

Fairly frequent, mainly found south of the Humber in Britain.

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 23 of the 617 tetrads.