Botanical Family · Solanales

Cuscutaceae

Dodder or Devil’s gut Family

2 speciesOrder Solanales2+ well-known plants

The Cuscutaceae family (Dodder or Devil’s gut Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Solanales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 2 species. Its members are predominantly parasites. Familiar examples include Dodder and Common Dodder.

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Representative specimen · Cuscutaceae

Key pattern

Leafless, thread-like, orange or yellow parasitic vines with no chlorophyll of their own, twining around a host plant's stems and tapping in through small root-like pegs (haustoria); tiny, waxy, bell-shaped flowers cluster densely along the stem.

After germinating, a dodder seedling has only days to find and attach to a host stem before its own meagre root reserves run out — once attached, it typically abandons its own root and lives as a full parasite.

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Fine thread-like leafless orange-yellow parasitic vine

Thicker leafless yellow parasitic vine with showy white flower clusters

Notable members

Dodder, Chinese DodderCuscuta chinensisCommon Dodder, Amar BelCuscuta reflexa

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