I'm in coastal East Gippsland.
The already rare stands of Coast Grey Box are looking very spindly. The oldest trees seem to be suffering most. Quite a few are dead, many more are dying back.
michael_p wrote:... Amazingly the host trees appear to be OK so I am not sure why the Mistletoe has died.
I have also noticed lots of dead misletoe sitting on the roadsides.
My reasoning is that perhaps the host tree can shut off translocation/circulation to it's extremities.
On the box trees first the leaf foliage thins out, even the the individual leaves look smaller, then the trees dies-back from the extremities inwards to the limbs and trunk.
I'd imagine anything attached to and living on the outer reaches of the tree will also die.