Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Muellerina eucalyptoides
Common name
Creeping Mistletoe
Family
Loranthaceae
Where found
Usually parasitic on species of Eucalyptus, occasionally on other hosts including exotic trees. Widespread.
Notes
Mistletoe, spreading to hanging down, virtually hairless. Plants attached to the host by a bulbous union, external runners present. Fruit fleshy. Leaves opposite each other, 5.5–25 cm long, 7–28 mm wide, tips pointed, venation indistinct. Flowers yellow to greenish outside, reddish inside, 30–45 mm long, with 5 petals, sometimes free from each other when the flowers are fully open. Flowers in 2-5 pairs of threes (triads) or single flowers, all stalked. Flowers mainly summer. Fruit yellowish when ripe, pear-shaped, 8–15 mm long.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Muellerina~eucalyptoides (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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