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What (who) is dodder - definition

GENUS OF PLANTS
Cuscutaceae; Dodder vine; Strangleweed; Strangle weed; Devil Guts; Witches Shoelaces; Cascutaceae; Dodder; Dodder, the Parasitic Plant; Amarbel; Witch's hair; Hailweed; Hellbine; Strangle tare; Scaldweed; Wizard's net; Devil's guts; Hairweed; Devil guts; Witches shoelaces; Dodder plant; Devil's ringlet; Wizards net; Cuscuteae
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  • Dodder Forming a Net on its Host
  • Diagram illustrating how ''Cuscuta'' uses haustoria to penetrate the vascular system of its host plant and remove sugars and nutrients from the host's [[phloem]]. [Note: twining direction is reversed from that shown in this illustration.]<br /> 1). ''Cuscuta'' plant <br /> 2). Host plant <br /> 3). ''Cuscuta'' leaves <br /> 4). Ground tissue <br /> 5). Phloem <br /> 6). Sugars and nutrients <br /> 7). Epidermal tissue <br /> 8). A ''Cuscuta'' haustorium growing into the phloem of the host plant.

Dodder         
·vt & ·vi To shake, tremble, or totter.
II. Dodder ·noun A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, ·etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it.
dodder         
dodder1
¦ verb be slow and unsteady.
Derivatives
dodderer noun
doddering adjective
doddery adjective
Origin
C17: var. of obs. dialect dadder; related to dither.
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dodder2
¦ noun a parasitic climbing plant of the convolvulus family, with leafless stems that are attached to the host plant by means of suckers. [Genus Cuscuta.]
Origin
ME: related to Mid. Low Ger. doder, dodder, Mid. High Ger. toter.
Cuscuta         
Cuscuta (), commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, on the basis of the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

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Cuscuta

Cuscuta (), commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, on the basis of the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The genus is found throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the world, with the greatest species diversity in subtropical and tropical regions; the genus becomes rare in cool temperate climates, with only four species native to northern Europe.

Folk names include: strangle tare, scaldweed, beggarweed, lady's laces, fireweed, wizard's net, devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, strangleweed, angel hair, and witch's hair.

Examples of use of dodder
1. De Moraes and her team worked with a type of dodder known as Cuscuta pentagona, but there are several varieties of dodder with similar lifestyles.
2. The vine–like dodder doesn‘t have roots and cannot produce its own food.
3. Dodder will infect wheat if there is no choice, he said, but they discovered that one of the volatile chemicals given off by wheat repels dodder, so it will choose the tomato if allowed to pick.
4. The question of how dodder finds a host plant has puzzled researchers.
5. The parasitic dodder plant doesn‘t have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey.