Cuscuta approximata (BIS-Fogo)

Cuscuta approximata

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Cuscuta approximata is a species of dodder known by the common name alfalfa dodder. It is native to Eurasia and Africa, but it is also found in North America, where it is an introduced species and uncommon noxious weed. It is a parasitic vine which climbs other plants and takes nutrition directly from them via a haustorium. The dodder resembles a pile of light yellow to orange-red straw wrapped tightly around its host plant. It is...

Comments ⁷

According to Kamelin (in litt.), the specimens identified as Cuscuta approximata require further study. Possibly two or three species are combined in this description, one of them probably C. cupulata Engelmann. Cuscutaapproximata is known to be strictly parasitic on Medicago.

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Jan Ševčík, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/105704.jpg
Jan Ševčík, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/105703.jpg
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(c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta_approximata
(c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/19818623

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