An evergreen shrub that forms clumps 1-3 ft (0.3-0.9 m) in diameter on branches of broad-leaved trees. Mistletoe leaves are opposite, thick and leathery, oval to round, and 1-2 in (2.5-5.1 cm) long. The flowers are small, greenish-white; the sterile ones mostly 3-parted, in axillary, solitary spikes, and about as long as the leaves. The fruit is globose, yellowish-white, smooth, semitransparent, with a viscous pulp, is borne in clusters, and contains 1 fleshy seed.
To procure abortions, also to prevent conception, causes an increase in uterine contractions and helps to stop bleeding after parturition (tea from leaves); in epilepsy, hysteria, insanity, paralysis and other nervous diseases.
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