Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Atkinsonia ligustrina

Common name

None

Family

Loranthaceae

Where found

Woodland and heath in exposed sites, a single plant often parasitic on the roots of many nearby plants. Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Fruit fleshy. Leaves opposite each other, 2–5 cm long, 6–14 mm wide, tips blunt. Flowers sweetly scented, with 6-8 yellow petals, each about 6 mm long. Flowers in 2–8-flowered clusters, shorter than the leaves. Flowering: spring–summer. Fruit red when ripe, oblong oval, about 15 mm long.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Atkinsonia~ligustrina (accessed 4 January, 2021)