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Decaisnina brittenii

Decaisnina brittenii
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Decaisnina brittenii is a hemiparasitic mistletoe-like plant that grows on other trees in northern Australia. It is not a houseplant and is not grown in home gardens, so care is mainly about its native habitat.

Family
Loranthaceae (Loranth family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Full sun
Temperature
Seasonally dry tropical climate in the wild; not suited to cultivation outside its range without expert advice.
Native range
N. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Decaisnina brittenii is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to the Northern Territory, Queensland and northern Western Australia.

D. brittenii has linear to narrowly lanceolate leaves and this is the only way in which it differs from D. signata.

Other Decaisnina plants

Decaisnina angustata · Decaisnina hollrungii · Decaisnina signata · Decaisnina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Decaisnina brittenii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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