Mistletoe - Oobayadorigi

Japanese: オオバヤドリギ - おおばやどりぎ

An evergreen, semi-parasitic woody plant of the family Mistletoe (illustration). The branches and undersides of the leaves are densely covered with brown hairs. The leaves are slightly opposite, broadly ovate, entire, and the inflorescence bears 2-7 flowers. The flowers bloom in late autumn, are tubular with a swollen lower part, about 3 cm long, and the tip is divided into four parts, recurved, covered with reddish-brown hairs on the outside but hairless on the inside. They are distributed in Honshu (west of Kanto), China, Kyushu, the Ryukyu Islands, the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, and mainland China, and parasitize evergreen broad-leaved trees. The Japanese blue thrush T. kaempferi (DC.) Danser is smaller and fleshier, with glabrous leaves except for the undersides of young leaves, and produces red-pink flowers in summer and ripened red fruits in winter.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

常緑で半寄生のヤドリギ科の木本性植物（イラスト）。枝や葉の裏には茶色の毛を密生する。葉はやや対生状につき，広卵形で全縁。花序は2～7個の花をつける。花は晩秋に咲き，下部がふくれた筒状で長さ約3cm，先は4片に分かれ，反り返り，外側は赤褐色の毛でおおわれるが，内側は無毛である。本州(関東以西)，中国，九州，南西諸島，朝鮮半島南部，中国大陸に分布し，常緑広葉樹に寄生する。マツグミT.kaempferi (DC.) Danserはより小型で硬肉質で，若葉の葉裏以外は無毛の葉を有し，赤紅色の花を夏季に咲かせ，冬季に果実が紅熟する。

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