Slender Dodder-laurel - a native (Cassytha glabella)

Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family).

Native.

Moderately common.

Identification:

• the plant is an (apparently) low leafless twiner, that climbs over small shrubs
• the slender stems are about a millimetre across
• the twining stems attach themselves to the supporting plant by suckers
• the fruit are ovoid, and become brown as they ripen
• the stems and fruit are hairless.

It is a much smaller and more slender plant than Coarse Dodder-laurel. It often climbs through Gold-dust Wattle.