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n. - Genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder.

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  • Cuscuta is often evident either hanging from tree branches or simply decorating and mercilessly strangling roadside verges like some discarded seamstress's orange thread.
  • Cuscuta is very common from 5 to 5,500 feet, continuing even to
  • Phoradendron species are "hemiparasites", meaning that they are capable of some photosynthesis and have green leaves, unlike Cuscuta.
  • It is curious that all plants hitherto found parasitical on roots, have no green leaves; to this, marked exceptions exists in Cuscuta and
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