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Cassytha filiformis

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The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia records that the "This and other species of Cassytha are called " Dodder-laurel." The emphatic name of "Devil's guts" is largely used. It frequently connects bushes and trees by cords, and becomes a nuisance to the traveller. "This plant is used by
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has an important negative impact on gall wasp survival. In the study, other species of plant and wasp galls are parasitised by this plant in the southern Florida area too.
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made of 3 outer oval ones 1 mm long and three inner ones 2.5 mm long. Each one has smooth (glabrous) and broad stamens with short pointy ends forming into a beak shape.
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A 2018 study revealed how a southern Florida subspecies of this widespread species is involved in a newly discovered form of trophic interaction involving gall-forming
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is a twining vine with yellow or orange to pale green hollow stems with a length between 3–8 metres long. The stems attach to host plants by growing
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that fold inside the hosts' phloem and xylem membranes to absorb water and nutrients for a long time until they dry up and die.
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In the Caribbean region, it is one of several plants known as "love vine" because it has a reputation as an
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Bush Medicine in the Family Islands: The Medical Ethnobotany of Cat Island and Long Island, Bahamas
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Pregnant women in Polynesia drink juice from the vines for 4 weeks before their babies'
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the Brahmins of Southern India for seasoning their buttermilk. (Treasury of Botany?)".
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Egan, Scott P.; Zhang, Linyi; Comerford, Mattheau; Hood, Glen R. (20 August 2018).
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Leaves are reduced to scales about 1 mm long and can be seen near stem ends.
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1–2 cm long from short stalks or sometimes solitary. There are six curved inward
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Egan, Scott P.; Zhang, Linyi; Comerford, Mattheau; Hood, Glen R. (August 2018).
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about 7 mm in diameter. Its juicy flesh is eaten and dispersed by birds.
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were associated with a 45% less survival rate for the wasps, suggesting that
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wasps. New tendrils will actively seek out galls made by the gall wasp,
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at Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, University of Florida
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Correll, Donovan Stewart; Johnston, Marshall Conring (1970).
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The useful native plants of Australia (including Tasmania)
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Conservation status
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Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Magnoliids
Laurales
Lauraceae
Cassytha
Binomial name
L.
Synonyms
Meisn.
parasitic
vine
Lauraceae
tropical
worldwide
Americas
Indomalaya
Australasia
Polynesia
Africa
obligate parasite
Florida
gall wasps

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