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5
1
Plant attached to the
branches and trunks of
trees and shrubs, not
rooting in soil
Viscum album L.
1
Plants rooting in soil
2
2
Dwarf shrubs, <50 cm
tall at maturity
3
2
Trees, woody climbers,
or tall shrubs (>50 cm
tall at maturity)
51
3
Leaves opposite
4
3
Leaves alternate (or
whorled)
16
4
Leaves more or less
scale-like, closely
adpressed to stem
5
4
Leaves not scale-like,
diverging from stem
6
5
Leaves not triangular.
Flowers
hermaphrodite, pink,
with petals. Leaves
more or less odourless
Calluna vulgaris (L.)
Hull