Categories David Golden bough, with white and green Post author By David Post date 25 February 2017 The yellowish tinge of the new growth, the origin of the poetic description of mistletoe as the golden bough, with the old stems and leaves which stay green through the winter, and the ghostly white of the berries. ← Female mallard, preening perch, Stratford → Heron, Shrewsbury, river bank