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Loranthus

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Loranthus 

a genus of low green hemiparasitic shrubs of the family Loranthaceae. The plants parasitize trees. The leaves are opposite or alternate, leathery, and entire; there is pronounced pinnate venation. The flowers, which are marked by a cup-shaped widening of the axis, are generally bisexual and inconspicuous. The inflorescence is paniculate or spicate. The perianth consists of four to six yellowish green bracts that are adnate to the filaments of the stamens. The fruit is berry-shaped, ovate, or globose. There are approximately 500 species (according to other data, as many as 600), distributed primarily in the tropics of the eastern hemisphere. The USSR has one species, L. europaeus, which parasitizes oak. This brownish green forked-branching deciduous shrub has blunt oblong-elliptic leaves.
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3][TM] The FAS Track to Weight Management This novel ingredient is comprised of three potent Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS) inhibitors: Green Tea, Tuber Fleeceflower and Parasitic Loranthus.
Integrity Nutraceuticals International by Nutraceuticals World
In eastern Europe there is another parasitic plant called loranthus,in the same family as mistletoe, that does grow on oak and it is probably this variety that was the sacred plant used in ancient times.
week in erddig by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
The remedy Loranthus at a dose of 10 drops, twice a day, will be very good for your migraines.
YOUR PROBLEMS by Kelly, Dreena; Vries, Jan de / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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