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

Fruit. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

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

Plant. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Fleshy Mistletoe

Family

Loranthaceae

Notes

Mistletoe.  Parasitises a variety of species.  Leaves somewhat fleshy, mostly opposite each other, 3-11cm long, 5-25mm wide, flat, hairless.  Flowers red, with 4 or 5 petals, in umbels composed of 2-3 groups of 3 flowers on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves.  Fruit yellow to red to black.  Amyema miraculosum ssp. boormanii in NSW.

Description and photo of flowers in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 220-221

PlantNET description (as Amyema miraculosum ssp. boormanii):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Amyema~miraculosum+subsp.~boormanii