Question

what is a cuscuta plant

Answer 1

Cuscuta is a genus of leafless, twining, parasitic plant belonging to family Convolvulaceae. It lack chlorophyll and instead absorbs food through haustoria; these are rootlike organs that penetrate the tissue of a host plant and may kill it. They have yellow, orange, pink or brown coloured slender, string like stems. The dodder’s flowers, in nodule like clusters, are made up of tiny yellow or white bell-like, lobed corollas (united petals). Its leaves are reduced to minute scales.