Being hemiparasitic, it draws water and minerals from its host, however it photosynthesises to manufacture its own supply of carbohydrates.

It has dark red flowers which are carried in groups of three and the fruit is a narrow shaped yellow berry.

It forms dense, upright clumps and is often found parasitising other parasitic plants, making it an epiparasite.

[5][failed verification] With its tubular red flowers, the pollination of A. miraculosa is predominantly via birds.

A. miraculosa is also a host plant for butterflies and their caterpillars[6] Fleshy mistletoe was first described in 1845 by Dutch botanist Freidrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel as Loranthus miraculosus and was transferred to Amyema by French botanist Phillipe Édouard Léon Van Teighem in 1895.