Hemiparasites obtain nutrients and inorganic salts from host plants through haustoria, a habit that has evolved independently ...

Dodder weed, scientifically classified in the Cuscuta species, is a parasitic vine that targets a variety of vegetables, crops, and shrubs. Its delicate, threadlike stems range in color from pale ...

It’s all the same to Cuscuta gronovii, a plant more often referred to these days as common dodder or swamp dodder. But why all the bizarre folk names, like something out of a witch’s bubbling ...

The silver croaker (Plagioscion squamosissimus), a fish native to the Amazon (corvina or pescada-branca in Portuguese), is the most probable cause of a sharp fall in the diversity of native ...

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A parasitic weed is slowly but surely choking vegetation in parts of Rift Valley and Western Kenya. The dodder weed, which is rather new in Kenya, is not only attacking trees but also tea farms.