What plant associated with Christmas has the Latin name Viscum Album?

Answer 1

Mistletoe.

Mistletoe has always been considered a plant with mystical properties for thousands of years. In ancient times, mistletoe was seen as a representation of divine male essence, romance, fertility, vitality, and virility.

According to the original pagan customer which has now been adopted as a Christmas custom, a man and a woman who meet under a hanging of mistletoe were obliged to kiss, the energy of the plant thought to increase amorous feelings and divine male energy. No better home to this marvelous plant than Virginia, the "lovers" state,

This special plant is of the Viscum album strain which is found in Virgina has also been acclaimed by many for have anti-carcinogenic properties. This evergreen shrub with branches that may extend ten feet across with feathery leaves, yellow flowers and sticky white berries. This Mistletoe grows at high elevations on young branches of deciduous trees, such as firs, ash, apple, hawthorne and oak.