Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-out
- Written by Gregg Müller, Lecturer in Natural History, La Trobe University
People don’t like parasites. But there’s a local Aussie tree that’s only a little bit parasitic: the native cherry, or cherry ballart.
It’s what we call hemiparasitic. It can photosynthesise, but gains extra nutrients by attaching its roots to host plants.
The native cherry, Exocarpos cupressiformis,...