Viscum capense L.F.

Plants dioecious. Leafless or with scale-like leaf rudiments, monoecious or dioecious semi-shrubs mostly less than 0.5 m high, often forming dense rounded, or occasionally elongate, clusters, often glaucous. Stems rounded; basal internodes of younger branches (6-)8-12(-15) x 2-3 mm, younger shoots often about the same diameter as the primary shoots. Leaf scales acute, c. 1 mm long, often projecting conspicuously at right angles from stem. Staminate flowers solitary in the bracteal cup, often 3-5-fascicled at the nodes. Pistillate flowers borne similarly. Berries rounded, 3-4 mm long, sessile, smooth, white (almost translucent when fresh and the mesocarp watery, not viscid).

It is a subtropical plant.

The stems are chopped and browned near the fire then used to make a tea. The fruit are eaten as a snack.