About laurel dodder
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 worldwide including the Americas, Indomalaya, Australasia, Polynesia and tropical Africa. It is an obligate parasite, meaning it cannot complete its life-cycle without another host plant. Research in Florida (in southeast United States) has found that love-vine inhibits gall wasps by attacking the galls (small growths on plants) that the wasps create for their young.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cassytha filiformis
- Genus
- Cassytha
- Family
- LAURACEAE
- Habit
- Parasite
- Habitat
- On bushes and small trees, margins of deciduous and scrub forests, also in agricultural fields
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Flowering & fruiting
- May-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- आकास बेल akas bel
- Bengali
- সীতার চুল
- Tamil
- எருமைக்கொற்றான் erumai-k-korran, தூற்றுமைக்கொற்றான் turrumai-k-korran, பசுங்கொற்றான் pacu-n-korran
- Telugu
- ఆకాశవల్లి akasa-valli, ఆకాశవల్లి
- Kannada
- ಆಕಾಶ ಬಳ್ಳೀ aakaasha balli, ಅಮರ ಬಳ್ಳಿ amara balli, ಬೀಳು ಬಳ್ಳಿ bilu balli
- Marathi
- अमरवेल amarvel, अंबरवेल ambarvel
Lauraceae
Laurel/Cinnamon family
laurel dodder belongs to the Lauraceae family.
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