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Scientific Name : Exocarpos cupressiformis
Common Name : Cherry ballart
Height : Up to 8 metres
Description : Large shrub to small tree, which, when young, is a root Parasite on various species of eucalyptus. Branches very numerous, slender, green, Furrowed. Leaves reduced to tiny persistent scales at the base of each branchlet. Flowers minute, green in short dense Axillary Spikes to 6mm long. Fruit a nut 4 to 6 mm long, with its stalk swollen and fleshy, usually broader and longer than the nut, brightly coloured, red when ripe, when it is edible.
Habitat : Open eucalyptus forest.
Distribution : Scattered through open forest in the Fosters Gully section of the Park. All known specimens are large mature trees. Young plants are common outside the Park, but no young plants have been located recently within the Park boundary. Common in open forest throughout Victoria. Also in South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales and Queensland.
Flowering Season : May
Family : Santalaceae
 
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Cherry ballart fruiting stems, in Fosters Gully.