Introduction to Southern Cuscuta and Full Picture Album of Southern Cuscuta

Flowering Plant: Southern Dodder

Plant Attributes of Southern Dodder

Chinese Name Southern Dodder Alias European Dodder, Golden Thread Vine Latin Name Cuscuta australis R. Br. Family and Genus Convolvulaceae, Cuscuta Genus Distribution China's Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Gansu, and other places

Description of Southern Dodder Plant

Southern Dodder is an annual parasitic herb. The stem is twining, golden yellow, delicate, and leafless. The inflorescence is lateral, with few or many flowers clustering into small umbel-like or small capitulum inflorescences, with the peduncle almost absent. The corolla is creamy white or light yellow, cup-shaped, with ovate or oblong lobes, rounded at the apex, approximately equal in length to the corolla tube, erect, and persistent. The fruit is a flattened sphere, irregularly splitting when mature, not circumscissile. It parasitizes on wild plants and cultivated herbs (such as watermelons, melons) as well as ornamental plants.

Appreciation of Southern Dodder Images

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