Amyema maidenii
(Blakely) Barlow
Mistletoe
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are eaten.
Where to Find It
They grow on acacia trees. The species are mostly Acacia aneura, Acacia harpophylla, and Acacia tetragonophylla. It grows in inland Australia. It can grow in arid places.
Australia*,
How to Identify
A branched plant. It grows on the branches of some Acacia species. It lives partly off these plants. The stems are covered with white to brown hairs. The leaves are oval and greyish. The flowers are green. The fruit are shaped like a cylinder and are yellow when ripe.
How to Grow
Plants are grown by seed.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Amyema maidenii is a species of flowering plant within the genus Amyema, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to Australia and found Australia-wide in the inland (but not in Victoria nor Tasmania).
Notes
There are about 90-100 Amyema species.
Names & Synonyms
Nyirunypa, Park-parka
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