Juniper Mistletoe

Plant: aerial, parasitic shrub; woody; SHOOTS 2-4 dm high, greenish, glabrous, the internodes 6-10 mm long Leaves: reduced to minute scales INFLORESCENCE: staminate spikes with usually 1 fertile segment, ca. 6 flowers per segment; pistillate spikes with 1 fertile segment, with 2 flowers Flowers: glabrous, sunken along the axis; perianth segments usually 3, persistent in fruit; staminate flower with a sessile minute (less than 2 mm), 2-chambered anther; pistillate flower with a single style and rounded stigma Fruit: white-pinkish, glabrous, ca. 4 mm in diameter.