Amyema pendulum - Mistletoe

Amyema

Mistletoe

Family: Loranthaceae (Mistletoes)
Habitat: Mistletoes are parasitic shrubs that grow on other trees
Uses: The fruits are edible
Season:
References: Low, Robinson

Mistletoes are parasitic shrubs that draw part of their nourishment from the host tree that they grow on. The fruits are edible by humans and birds, including the mistletoe bird which helps spread the plant to other trees. The fruit has a sticky, gelatinous, glucose-rich pulp around a single seed. Amyema pendulum is a common species found in the Sydney region.

The photo below shows a dead Amyema pendulum, I will put a photo of a live one up when I find one. (I think I have a copyright-free one in my collection but there are thousands of photos to look through to find it.) The leaves of live species look a lot like the leaves of the host trees, making them sometimes hard to find. Often the leaves look more reddish than the host trees, and sometimes they are easiest to find when they are dead, since then they stand out from the leaves of the host tree.

Dead Amyema pendulum growing on a Eucalyptus polyanthemos (Red Box) - Mistletoe
Photo: Bidgee, Dead Amyema pendulum - Mistletoe, growing on a Eucalyptus polyanthemos (Red Box). Higher resolution (1064 x 1600)

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