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Mistletoe IMG_6500

Amyema miquelii. Thanks, Dan.

florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/2380

From Florabase: Aerial shrub. hemiparasitic on stems. Fl. yellow, orange , red, Feb–Dec. Mainly on Eucalyptus, occasionally on Acacia.

And here on a eucalypt.

plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&am...

Finally found on Floranet but not under the common name of mistletoe! It had to be there, since I had seen this species or something close to it in NSW, in the Hunter.

Paul O. Downey in Cunninghamia (1998,2004) says this species parasitizes 126 species, the majority of which are Eucalypts...

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Uploaded on March 29, 2010
Taken on March 27, 2010