Mistletoe (Viscum album) is an evergreen, fork-branched shrub parasitizing on the branches and trunks of many deciduous woody plants. It has sucker roots with the help of which it penetrates under the bark and into the wood of the host plant. The branches are green, often brownish-green in the lower part, ligneous, jointed, bare, easily breaking in knots. The leaves are thick, pale green in color. The fruit is a spherical or oblong single-seeded berry (about 10 mm in diameter). It blooms in March-April; the fruits ripen in September-October.