[1] On Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula its hosts include coast wirilda, golden wattle and drooping sheoak.

[3] Amyema Preissii is the only mistletoe with slender, needle-shaped leaves and all-red flowers lacking velvety covering, in groups of three.

This distinctive mistletoe has feathery foliage, composed of soft, needle-like leaves (with pointed, but not sharp, tips).

[4] This Mistletoe presents abundant orange-red flowers, with smooth bases and buds, borne in groups of three.

A shiny cuticle covers the rind which surrounds a mucilaginous viscid layer occupying most of the volume of the fruit.

In the centre lies the seed with a well-developed Endosperm and green embryo projecting toward the distal end of the fruit.

[9] Mistletoes have no seed bank and must be dispersed on host branches with well-defined characteristics to have a chance of survival.