page_title: Viscum
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Viscum / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Омела окрашенная на осине в пригороде Хабаровска, Россия English: Viscum coloratum on Aspen about Khabarovsk, Russia
context_page_description: Viscum is a genus of about 70–100 species of mistletoes, native to temperate and tropical regions of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Traditionally, the genus has been placed in its own family Viscaceae, but recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group shows this family to be correctly placed within a larger circumscription of the sandalwood family, Santalaceae.
  They are woody, obligate hemiparasitic shrubs with branches 15–80 centimetres long. Their hosts are woody shrubs and trees. The foliage is dichotomously or verticillately branching, with opposite pairs or whorls of green leaves which perform some photosynthesis, but with the plant drawing its mineral and water needs from the host tree. Different species of Viscum tend to use different host species; most species are able to use several different host species.
  The flowers are inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, 1–3 millimetres diameter. The fruit is a berry, white, yellow, orange, or red when mature, containing one or more seeds embedded in very sticky juice; the seeds are dispersed when birds eat the fruit, and remove the sticky seeds from the bill by wiping them on tree branches where they can germinate.
context_section_description: Viscum album – European mistletoe
  Viscum articulatum
  Viscum bancroftii
  Viscum capense – Cape mistletoe (South Africa)
  Viscum coloratum – Korean mistletoe (Korea)
  Viscum combreticola Engl. – combretum mistletoe
  Viscum cruciatum – red-berried mistletoe
  Viscum diospyrosicola
  Viscum fargesii
  Viscum liquidambaricola
  Viscum loranthi
  Viscum minimum
  Viscum monoicum
  Viscum multinerve
  Viscum nudum
  Viscum orientale
  Viscum ovalifolium
  Viscum rotundifolium L.f. – round-leaved or red-berry mistletoe
  Viscum triflorum
  Viscum whitei
  Viscum yunnanense
caption: Viscum coloratum on Aspen
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