Cassytha is a genus of some two dozen species of obligately parasitic vines in the family Lauraceae. Superficially, and in some aspects of their ecology...
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Cassytha filiformis or love-vine is an orangish, wiry, parasitic vine in the family Lauraceae. It is found in coastal forests of warm tropical regions...
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trees and shrubs, especially in tropical and temperate climates. The genus Cassytha is unique in the Lauraceae in that its members are parasitic vines. Most...
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Cassytha pubescens is a native Australian hemiparasitic vine species, in the Laurel family. Common names for the species include devils twine, dodder-laurel...
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Cassytha racemosa (common name - dodder laurel) is a parasitic perennial in the Lauraceae family. It is found in Western Australia. The species was first...
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Cassytha melantha is a parasitic vine. Common names include coarse dodder-laurel and large dodder-laurel. The fruits are about 10–15 millimetres (0.39–0...
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twine from one plant to another, parasitic plants such as Cuscuta and Cassytha have been shown to convey phytoplasmal and viral diseases between plants...
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Cactus pendulus Sw. Cactus quadrangularis Haw. Cassytha baccifera J.S.Muell. Cassytha filiformis Mill. Cassytha polysperma Aiton ex Gaertn. Cereus bacciferus...
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Cassytha glabella, commonly known as the slender devil's twine, is a common twining plant of the Laurel family, found in many of the moister parts of Australia...
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also is applied to alleged aphrodisiacs, such as Caribbean species of Cassytha, which are unrelated to Clematis, not being in the family Ranunculaceae...
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Parkinson's disease because of its stimulating effect on dopamine receptors. Cassytha filiformis, a plant used in African traditional medicine, contains many...
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Prunus virginiana Clove cherry Prunus apetala Coarse dodder-laurel fruit Cassytha melantha Cocoplum Chrysobalanus icaco Coconut Cocos nucifera Coffeeberry...
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respects it closely resembles the similarly parasitic, but unrelated genus, Cassytha. From mid-summer to early autumn, the vines can produce small fruit that...
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β-nupharidine. In vitro tests of some aporphine derivatives isolated from Cassytha filiformis, namely, actinodaphnine, cassythine, and dicentrine, showed...
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the host and the parasite so intimately that parasitic twiners such as Cassytha may act as vectors carrying disease organisms from one host plant to another...
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Lauraceae, Genus Cassytha Cassytha ciliolata Nees, indigenous Cassytha filiformis L. indigenous Cassytha pondoensis Engl. endemic Cassytha pondoensis Engl...
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markings. The larvae have been recorded feeding on Cassytha aurea, Cassytha filiformis and Cassytha pubescens. They are velvety green with a pale yellow...
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realised it was a cactus. Instead, he assumed he had found a new species of Cassytha, a parasitic laurel from a completely different plant family. In the taxonomic...
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Glochidion, Styphelia, Bidens, Xylosma, Garnotia, Sphenomeris, Lycopodium, and Cassytha. The grass-like sedges Gahnia schoenoides and Machaerina bidwellii [ceb;...
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its hosts. More complex interactions are possible; the parasitic plant Cassytha filiformis sometimes preferentially feeds on galls induced by the cynipid...
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have been recorded feeding on the young shoots of Cassytha melantha, Cassytha racemosa and Cassytha peninsularis. They are green with orange patches and...
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Cassytha species alleged to have aphrodisiac properties Clematis virginiana, a North American ornamental vine. Cuscuta species confused with Cassytha...
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Ficus, bay cedar (Suriana maritima). Herbs—mainly the parasitic vine Cassytha filiformis as well as Euphorbia tannensis ssp. eremophila and grasses (mainly...
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in Tasmania. The wingspan is about 30 mm. The larvae feed on Cassytha glabella and Cassytha pubescens. Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley (May 3, 2007)...
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Growth habit of Cassytha glabella...
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purslane as well as the spiderling Boerhavia repens, the parasitic vine Cassytha filiformis, and Pacific Island thintail (Lepturus repens) supplement it...
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metres per year) tall evergreen tree with a straight bole (usually host to Cassytha, a parasitic vine with leaves reduced to scales, up to half of the tree's...
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975 feet. The indigenous kaunaʻoa pehu (literally "swollen kaunaʻoa") Cassytha filiformis is a similar-looking species with the same parasitic nature...
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risk after bushfires and have perished after being tangled up in dodder (Cassytha) or bidgee-widgee (Acaena novae-zelandiae). The Australian boobook generally...
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Boerhavia albiflora Boerhavia burbidgeana Boerhavia glabrata Boerhavia repens Cassytha filiformis Cenchrus brownii Naturalised Cenchrus ciliaris Naturalised Cleome...
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