The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Dendrophthoe memecylifolia is a hemiparasitic mistletoe in the family Loranthaceae, native to the Western Ghats of South India. It grows attached to host trees in cool shola forests and is not cultivated as a garden plant, so care depends on the host tree rather than the gardener.
Dendrophthoe memecylifolia is one of the hemiparasitic plants that belong to the mistletoe family Loranthaceae. This species is endemic to South India, occurring in the subtropical and temperate forests of the Western Ghats. It is commonly found in shola forests above 1200 m altitude, growing on a variety of host plants. Its range includes Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.
The plant has slender, smooth branches with small pores. Its leaves grow in pairs, are oval to elliptic in shape, leathery in texture, and about 4–6 cm long. Flowers appear in small clusters, with club-shaped buds and five joined petals. The fruits are small, smooth, and oval, about 1 cm long, with a tiny rim at the base that remains attached.
Dendrophthoe falcata · Smooth mistletoe · Dendrophthoe lanosa · Long Flower Mistletoe · Dendrophthoe
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dendrophthoe memecylifolia 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.
