Assertion: mistletoe's root | /r/CapableOf | function as epicortical runners
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text: It seems, therefore, that mistletoes evolved from terrestrial root-parasitic progenitors through a sequence in which bird-dispersed seeds were lodged and grew on tree branches (presumably in humid forests), with their roots functioning as epicortical runners and able to make haustorial connections to the tree