Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Atkinsonia ligustrina

Flowering branch. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Blue Mouintains National Park

Branch with young fruit. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Blue Mouintains National Park

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)