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Creeping Mistletoe

Muellerina eucalyptoides

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 120, February 80, March 66, April 115, May 83, June 94, July 51, August 85, September 76, October 84, November 65, December 129.
Australia1,048
Victoria619
New South Wales341
Queensland58
Australian Capital Territory22
South Australia4
Other Territories4

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
Ordersandalwoods, mistletoes, and allies · Santalales
FamilyTropical Mistletoes · Loranthaceae
GenusMuellerina

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Creeping Mistletoe with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.