Underneath the Misteltoe

Stopped for a bite to eat at McDonalds on the A1 and found these unusually low bunches of Mistletoe...

Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemi-parasitic plants in several families in the order Santalales. These plants grow attached to and penetrating within the branches of a tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they absorb nutrients from the host plant.