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Cuscuta chinensis

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Lamarck

Common Names

• Tu si zi (Pinyin)
• Hama-ne-nashi-kazura (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• New South Wales
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Qinghai
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Xinjiang - China
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Is.
• Shikoku - Japan
• Kazakhstan
• Kirgyzstan
• Korea
• Laos
• Madagascar
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• Pakistan
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tadzhikistan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Socotra - Yemen

Natural Habitats

• Open fields
• sandy beaches
• thickets
• montane thickets on plants of Fabaceae
• Asteraceae
• & Zygophyllaceae

Flowering Times

• Jul-Oct (China)
• Jun-Oct (Japan)

Fruiting Times

Slender glabrous parasitic twining vine with yellow or deep crimson stems, scalelike leaves. Lateral cymes or fascicles of 3mm long 10mm across white flowers with bracts to 25mm long, calyx 2mm long with 5 lobes, corolla 3mm long with lobes 2.5mm long, 3mm diameter globose white fruit

Medicinal uses, aphrodisiac

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• NYBG
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FA
• USNH
• FOTA
• FOJ
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew