Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Horsham, Vic

Leaves and berries. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Horsham, Vic

Plant. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Slender-leaf Mistletoe, Buloke Mistletoe

Family

Loranthaceae

Notes

Mistletoe, exclusively parasitic on Casuarinas eg Casuarina cristata, Casuarina pauper.   Leaves opposite each other or in clusters. Leaves 6-12cm long, 1-2.5mm wide, narrow cylindrical, hairy, the older leaves sometimes hairless, with blunt tips.  Flowers whitish outside, red inside, with 4 or 5 petals, in umbels usually composed of 3 groups of 3 flowers on stalks arising from the bases of the leavess.  Ripe fruit  translucent or grey to whitish, and hairy at least when immature.  Amyema linophyllum ssp. orientale in NSW.  Vulnerable Vic.

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 page 219

eFloraSA fact sheet (as Amyema linophyllum):  http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Amyema_linophyllum