One of my traveler friends sent me a photo of her flowers invaded by a strange, almost alien-type growth. A yellow, spaghetti-like plant called dodder seemed to come from nowhere and entangled her ...

Swamp dodder continues to spread through Wisconsin carrots, reducing crop yield and quality. Greenhouse research was conducted to evaluate the effect of swamp dodder infection timing on carrot ...

Researchers have investigated how the parasitic dodder Cuscuta australis controls flower formation. They showed that the parasite eavesdrops on the flowering signals of its host plants in order to ...

Ever heard of a dodder vine? I hadn’t – until I read “What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses” by Daniel Chamovitz. Turns out this widespread vine, all gawky and gangly, has what you might ...

Q:I have a lot of dodder (haven't kept after it) in one of the raised beds in which I am growing vegetables. Had a little last year, but this is a mess. Is the only way to get rid of it to replace the ...

Dodder (Cuscuta spp.) doesn’t look much like a typical plant. A sprawling vine with yellow-orange, spaghetti-like stems, it seems to lack both leaves and flowers. Actually, its leaves are reduced to ...

One of the newest invasive exotics in California is hard to miss, but maybe also hard to see because it doesn't look much like a plant at all. It's Cuscuta japonica, "Japanese" dodder, a parasite ...

Most plants absorb sunlight and CO2 with their leaves, take up water and minerals from the soil through roots, and are fully autotrophic. However, parasitic plants are a special class of plants that ...

The plant genus Cuscuta consists of more than 200 species that can be found almost all over the world. The parasites, known as dodder, but also called wizard's net, devil's hair or strangleweed, feed ...

The plant genus Cuscuta consists of more than 200 species that can be found almost all over the world. The parasites, known as dodder, but also called wizard's net, devil's hair or strangleweed, feed ...