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Mistletoe 1

To: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Subject: Mistletoe 1
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:37:12 +1100
Wearing a plant-person hat, the river oak mistletoe is usually referred with the Latin Amyema cambagei.  In this area we have 2 other Amyemas,  A. Miqueli and A pendula.  They both parasitise Eucalypts as does the much less common Muellerina eucalyptoides.

Martin


On 12 November 2013 16:28, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Female mistletoebird with berry in the river oak mistletoe.  This mistletoe imitates the needle-like casuarina foliage, but lacks the segments

 




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