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Muellerina eucalyptoides [Creeping Mistletoe]


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Oldfield, D. 2016. Muellerina eucalyptoides (DC.) Barlow (Loranthaceae) Creeping Mistletoe. Flowers photographed in visible and ultraviolet light.

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Synonyms

Loranthus eucalyptoides DC.

Dendrophthoe eucalyptoides DC.

Muellerina eucalyptifolia (Sieber ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Tiegh.

 

Maldon, Victoria, Australia

14 January 2016

Australian Native Wildflower as Garden Specimen

 

Comment

Muellerina eucalyptoides is a widespread species in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia which has mainly Angophora and Eucalyptus as hosts.

 

Visible Light: Nikon D750 Full Spectrum Modification, Nikon Rayfact PF10545 MF-UV 105 mm f/4.5 lens, Metz 15 MS-1 flash, 1/200 s @ f/16 ISO 200, Baader UV/IR Cut Filter.

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Image Reference: DO62450

 

Ultraviolet Light: Nikon D750 Full Spectrum Modification, Nikon Rayfact PF10545 MF-UV 105 mm f/4.5 lens, Nissin Di866 Mark II flash, 1/200s @ f/16 ISO 200, Baader UV-Pass Filter.

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Image Reference: DO62452

 

Ultraviolet Induced Visible Fluorescence: Nikon D750 Full Spectrum Modification, Nikon Rayfact PF10545 MF-UV 105 mm f/4.5 lens with Baader UV/IR Cut Filter, Nichia NCSU033A UV-LED with Baader UV-Pass Filter, 10.0 s @ f/11 ISO 1250.

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Image Reference: DO62453

 

References:

Elliott, W.R. and Jones, D.L. Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants suitable for cultivation, Lothian 1993, Volume 6, p. 454.

Watson, D.M. Mistletoes of Southern Australia, CSIRO Publishing, 2011, p. 94.

 

Published 15 January 2016

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It seems that they are likely to be bird pollinated to the quote Watson, p 124 "Australian mistletoes display the suite of floral characteristics that typify bird-pollinated plants". We do have honeyeaters locally which are said to be the main pollinators - Eastern Spinebills, New Holland Honeyeaters and Red Wattlebirds. "Their long bills are considered to be ideally suited to extracting nectar from these narrow flowers."

 

Before I started UV photography I thought that all mistletoes were the same - how wrong I was, I have now found four different species in our own garden within perhaps 100 m of each other! Another Trivial Pursuit fact for you - Tasmania does not have mistletoes. Since this is the time of year for mistletoe flowers I will post new examples of the other three to include UVIVFL.

 

Another quote "Australia is home to 91 species of mistletoe from three of the four families in which aerial hemiparasitism evolved independently" "Despite popular opinion, mistletoes are not introduced plants - every mistletoe plant growing in Australia is a native plant".

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