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Cuscuta americana

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Fideillo
• Tente en el Aire
• Hilo de Oro
• Tigne
• Vermicille (St Barts)
• Love Vine (Barbados)
• Corde à Víolon (Guadeloupe)

Geographical Habitats

• NW. Argentina
• Aruba
• Bahamas
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Goiás - Brazil
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Netherland Antilles
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Turks & Caicos
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Florida
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• thickets
• riverside
• hedgerows

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Parasitic herbaceous twining vine with yellow-orange glabrous stems. Vestigial leaves 2mm long yellowish in form of scales, large fimbriate bracts. Many-flowered umbels of white or yellowish bisexual flowers 4.8mm long. Capsule 2mm long crowned by persistent withered corolla, plant strongly scented.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• USDA
• JAA
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Kew