Box Mistletoe
Amyema miquelii
About Box Mistletoe
Box Mistletoe (Amyema miquelii) is a herb used in the Aboriginal Australian Medicine tradition to help with Wound Healing, Fever, Skin Health, and Inflammation. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Amyema miquelii, also known as box mistletoe, is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae, found attached to several species of Australian eucalypt and occasionally on some species of Acacia. It is the most widespread of the Australian Mistletoes, occurring mainly to the west of the Great Dividing Range. It has shiny leaves and red flowers arranged in groups of 3. It is distinguished from the similar Amyema pendula through...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist