Messeldeu

Viscum
Viscum album growin on a Populus species
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Santalales
Faimily:	Santalaceae
Genus:	Viscum L.
Species
See text

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

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

Messeldeu Viscum album wi berries

• 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