Scientific Name: Dendrophthoe vitellina

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  • Pronunciation:
    den-drof-THOH-ee vy-tel-EE-nah
  • Common Name:
    Apostle Mistletoe
  • Type:
    Mistletoe
  • Family:
    LORANTHACEAE
  • Status:
    Common
  • Flowers:
    Yellow tubular with pointed red tips to 4.5 cm - all year
  • Fruit:
    red to purplish ovoid fruit to 15mm
  • Flowers Color:
    Yellow
  • Fruit Color:
    Red
  • Vegetation Type:
    Eucalypt Forest, Coastal Heath
  • Species List:
    Stratford Park, Emu Mt., Batianoff 87,
Identification Notes

Parasite on Swamp Box whose leaves it resembles, also on wide range of other hosts in Myrtaceae family

Associated Fauna

Butterfly larval food plant : Scarlet Jezebel (Northern Jezebel) and Black Jezebel (Common Jezebel).