Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Amyema miraculosa subsp. boormanii

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Brookfield Conservation Reserve, SA

Fruit. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Plant. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

Fleshy Mistletoe

Family

Loranthaceae

Where found

Parasitises a variety of species, commonly on Acacia, Exocarpos, Eremophila, Myoporum, Santalum, and other mistletoes. Western Slopes.

Notes

Mistletoe. Young stems sparsely hairy, becoming hairless. Plants attached to the host by a bulbous union. External runners absent. Fruit fleshy, sticky. Leaves mostly opposite each other, 3-11 cm long, 3-25 mm wide, somewhat fleshy, surfaces hairless, sometimes glaucous, tips blunt or pointed. Flowers red, 8–25 mm long, with 4 or 5 petals, finally free from each other to the base when the flowers are fully open. Flowers in 3s (triads), the central flower stalkless, the lateral flowers stalked. Triads in pairs or 3s. Flowers mainly Dec.–Apr. Ripe fruit yellow or red to purple or black, elliptical, 8–10 mm long.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Amyema~miraculosa+subsp.~boormanii  (accessed 3 January, 2020)