Family: mistletoes (Viscaceae)
Flowering time: March–May
Size: up to 80 cm in diameter
Habitat: on fir
Fir mistletoe (Viscum abietis) is an evergreen, shrub-like hemiparasitic plant that grows on fir (Abies alba). It is a hemiparasite because it infiltrates the tissues of the host plant and draws water with minerals from it, but it itself produces organic substances through photosynthesis. Its green stem is extensively branched. It is leafy with fleshy oval leaves that are 4 to 8 cm long and up to three times as long as they are wide. The fruits are white, poisonous berries with sticky flesh. Fir mistletoe grows only on fir.
It is distributed scattered across the central part of Slovenia; in western Slovenia and in its northeastern part it is absent.
