Description. Cuscuta on creeper plant. Cuscuta can be identified by its thin stems appearing leafless, with the leaves reduced to minute scales. In these respects it closely resembles the similarly parasitic, but unrelated genus, Cassytha.
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Dodder, Cuscuta spp. - Wisconsin Horticulture
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Dodder is a group of ectoparasitic plants with about 150 species in a single genus, Cuscuta, in the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae) or Cuscutaceae, ...
Cuscuta species are used in traditional medicine as a purgative, diaphoretic, anthelmintic, diuretic, and tonic as well as a treatment for itching and bilious ...
Common dodder is a parasitic plant that initially has normal roots as it twines up the sides of its host, but then sends out suckers that penetrate the host's ...
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Cuscuta, commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red parasitic plants. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the morning glory family,... Wikipedia
Scientific name: Cuscuta
It is a pest of lucerne and other legumes. It has become a widespread weed in many countries. It is known as 'golden dodder' in Australia.
Cuscuta is the only parasitic genus in the family Convolvulaceae, and includes approximately 200 species distributed throughout all temperate and tropical ...
These rapidly growing parasites may spread from one species to another above ground, twining their white or yellowish to orange stems over their hosts, to which ...
Dodders are annual parasitic plants that reproduce by seed. They do not have any leaves or chlorophyll to live from, and must therefore obtain all of their ...
Scientific Name and Common Name. Cuscuta americana L. - American dodderP. Cuscuta applanata Engelm. - Gila River dodderP. Cuscuta approximata Bab.
These parasitic species have minimal plant structures, with roots present only on young plants and leaves inconspicuous or absent. The stems are yellowish or ...