This very vigorous, perennial, parasitic creeper grows on a variety of host trees on which it withdraws nutrients. It grows along the clifftop toward the Bells Beach Recreational Surfing Reserve and further south west.
Along our coastline favoured host plants are Gums like Messmate and Ironbark.
Flowers are small and white in sprays from winter to mid spring. These are followed by globose fruits about half the size of a grape which are favoured by a variety of birds and animals. After the fruits have been swallowed and then voided, the viscous, very sticky coating around the seed attaches to the branch on which it fell. The seed soon germinates on the tree branch and a clasping mechanism called an haustoria penetrates the bark of the host allowing the parasite to withdraw vital nutrients. As a result, mature Dodder-laurels do not require any root system.