Loranthaceae
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Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestri
Ligaria cuneifolia
Psittacanthus flowering atop a tree
Tripodanthus acutifolius on a tree.
Mistletoe
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Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract w
Loranthaceae
…Australia online Archived 2018-04-01 at the Wayback Machine, for the Malesian Loranthaceae see Flora of Malesia. Originally, Loranthaceae contained all mistletoe species, but the mistletoes of Europe and North America (Viscum, Arceuthobium, and Phoradendron) belong to the family Santalaceae. The APG II system…
European mistletoe (Viscum album) attached to a dormant common aspen (Populus tremula)
European mistletoe growing on an apple tree (Malus domestica); despite the mistletoe's presence, the apple tree is still able to bear fruit.
Mistletoe in winter
The Mistletoe Seller by Adrien Barrère