Messeldeu
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 Viscum album growin on a Populus species
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Messeldeu is a name for monie sindry parasitic plants o the families Santalaceae (in the section o the familie aince spleet as Viscaceae) an Loranthaceae.
Uiss [edit]
Messeldeu is aft hingit owre a door-wey in throu the Christenmas tid sae fowk can kiss unner thaim - this comin fae auld Norse tradeetions.
The leafes an youthie twigs o messeldeu is uised in Europe (maistly Germany) tae help wi respiratory an circulatory problems alang wi clyres bi herbalists.
Selected species [edit]
- Viscum album – European messeldeu
- Viscum articulatum
- Viscum bancroftii
- Viscum capense – Cape messeldeu (Sooth Africae)
- Viscum coloratum
- Viscum combreticola Engl. – Combretum messeldeu
- Viscum cruciatum – Reid-berried messeldeu
- Viscum diospyrosicola
- Viscum fargesii
- Viscum liquidambaricola
- Viscum loranthi
- Viscum minimum
- Viscum monoicum
- Viscum multinerve
- Viscum nudum
- Viscum orientale
- Viscum ovalifolium
- Viscum rotundifolium L.f. – Roond-leaved or Reid-berry messeldeu
- Viscum triflorum
- Viscum whitei
- Viscum yunnanense
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