mistletoe

Loranthus europaeus

misteli

loranthus Any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants with white berry berries that grow in the crowns of oaks, apple trees and other trees.
(quote-journal)|date=23 December 2014|passage=The stickiness of mistletoe berries persists through the gut, making it hard to defecate mistletoe seeds with any grace. To deal with this, birds like the w:silky-flycatcher silky flycatcher, Phainopepla nitens, that are mistletoe specialists, have evolved a "waggle dance" – also known as butt-wiping behavior – where they clean up by rubbing themselves against twigs. Indeed, the association with bird droppings may even be the origin of the word: Some evidence suggests that "mistletoe" comes from Anglo-Saxon for "dung on a twig."
A sprig of these plants used as a Christmas decoration.
(quote-journal)|date=23 December 2014|passage=Mistletoe. The word conjures winter holidays, office parties, stolen kisses, romance. But appreciation of the plant is no modern thing. Kissing under the mistletoe has been happening for at least 200 years. And some 2,000 years ago, the druids in which is now Britain venerated the plant when it grew on an oak. When they found it, they dressed in white, harvested it with a golden sickle, and sacrificed two white bulls. Or so says that great Roman, (w), in his "w:Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History."