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Mistletoe - A Poisonous Parasite?
Mistletoe is a poisonous parasite that lives on the branches of trees. There are more than 15 hundred species of mistletoe throughout the world, and a lot of them are toxic. In norse mythology, mistletoe was used on an arrow as a sort of norse cryptonite to kill the invincible god balder. When scientists removed mistletoe from trees in an area, the bird population suffered.
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