Cherry Ballart (Exocarpos cupressiformis)

I've always looked for these expecting to see a "regular" cherry sized fruit but these are very small , about 1 mm long. The swollen fruit stalk which makes the attractive red "cherry" is actually quite sweet to taste. The hard green part at the end of the cherry is the actual fruit and is inedible. Birds eat the whole fruit and thus disperse the seed.
The tree looks like a cypress pine and hence the name "cupressiformis" and because the seed is apparently external to the fruit, it has been given the name "Exocarpos".
The tree is indigenous to Australia and can be seen in sclerophyll forests. In the local area, they are seen in large numbers and form food plants for insects like the pentatomid bug, Commius elegans seen here