
thumb|right|European mistletoe (Viscum album) attached to a dormant common aspen ([[Populus tremula)]] thumb|right|European mistletoe growing on an apple tree (Malus domestica); despite the mistletoe's presence, the apple tree is still able to bear fruit.
thumb|right|European mistletoe (Viscum album) attached to a dormant common aspen ([[Populus tremula)]] thumb|right|European mistletoe growing on an apple tree (Malus domestica); despite the mistletoe's presence, the apple tree is still able to bear fruit.
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 water and nutrients from the host plant. There are hundreds of species which mostly live in tropical regions.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).