Common Name

Dwarf Cherry, Pale-fruit Ballart

Family

Santalaceae

Notes

Shrub or tree to 6m tall. Leaves scale-like, 0.1-0.3cm long, with long points, shed early. Flowers small (less than 3mm across), yellow-green, with 3-6 'petals', in short dense clusters or spikes of 2-6 flowers along the stems. Succulent stalk of the nut whitish to mauve to purple or red. Rare SA.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 226

PlantNET article: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Exocarpos~strictus