Good question. There's quite a bunch of other parasitic plants (and more often then not they don't look like any other plants at all, also since most lack any g

Good question. There's quite a bunch of other parasitic plants (and more often then not they don't look like any other plants at all, also since most lack any green color), but even though this one does look kinda special the properties described all seem to occur in other parasitic plants (as far as I'm aware).