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Cuscuta reflexa is the scientific name of dodder plant. It is a total parasite and nourishes from the host plant through haustoria.

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What is the scientific name of dodder plant?

Cuscuta reflexa is the scientific name of dodder plant. It is a total parasite and nourishes from the host plant through haustoria.


What is the scientific name of the cuscuta plant?

Dodder is the scientific name of Cuscuta plant


What is the other name of dodder?

The other names of dodder include love vine, strangleweed, devil's-guts and goldthread.


What is botanical name for lesser dodder?

cuscuta epithymum


What are the common names of cuscuta?

Dodder, hellweed, devil's gut, beggarweed, strangle tare, scaldweed, dodder of thyme , greater dodder, and lesser dodder. In Chinese, cuscuta seeds are called tu si zi.


Is dodder a saprophyte?

Dodder is a total parasite . It is because the dodder plants absorbs water,mineral as well as food from the host. A partial parasite absorbs only water and minerals from the host as partial parasites contain chlorophyll.


Is Salimpokot a variety of dodder?

No, Salimpokot is not a variety of dodder. It refers to a specific type of parasitic plant that is distinct from dodder. While both are parasitic, Salimpokot is primarily associated with certain regions and may have different characteristics and host preferences compared to dodder species.


What is the name of a plant that does not need light to grow?

Only parasitic plants such as Dodder can grow without photosynthesis


Why would a shrub be harmed by dodder?

Well, you see, the dodder needs a place to live and it dangers the shrubs


Does the greater dodder photosynthesise?

no


Name some parasitic plants?

the non-green plants which live on other living organisms and obtain food from them are called parasitic plants


How does a dodder plant produce food?

Dodder is a parasite, it obtains its food from feeding off other plants, it does not produce its own