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n. - Old World evergreen shrubs parasitic on many trees including oaks but especially apple trees, poplars, aspens and cottonwoods.

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  • Viscum has one attachment, but from this many branches spring after the form of the primary one.
  • Common mistletoe (Viscum album), heart-seed and rubber tube with a Tokoname pottery vase from the Japanese, Muromachi period (14th-16th centuries)
  • It is still common in England to see the leaves and berries of Viscum album, the European mistletoe, hung in some prominent position at Christmastime to ward off evil...
  • Besides a case in point exists in Viscum, or Loranthus, in which no point is ready prepared for the reception of the male influence; showing how universal the law is,...
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