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Cuscuta europaea

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Ou zhou tu si zi (Pinyin)
• Large Dodder
• Kushiro-ne-nashi-kazura (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Aghanistan
• Albania
• Austria
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Gansu
• Heilongjiang
• Nei Mongol
• Qinghai
• Shaanxi
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Xinjiang
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Greece
• Hungary
• Kashmir
• Sikkim - India
• Iran
• Iraq
• Italy
• Japan
• Kazakhstan
• Kirgizstan
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lithuania
• Morocco
• Nepal
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Poland
• Romania
• Russia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Syria
• Tadzhikistan
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
• Yugoslavia

Natural Habitats

• Grassland
• streamside
• hills etc

Flowering Times

• Aug-Sep (Great Britain)
• Jul-Sep (Japan)

Fruiting Times

Glabrous annual twining parasitic vine, yellowish or reddish stems, scalelike leaves, lateral fascicles of 3mm pink or white flowers, calyx segments to 1.5mm long, 5-lobed corolla to 3mm long, seed capsule to 3mm diameter

Known parasite

Further References

• FOC
• FONZ
• FOBI
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FOJ
• Gleason & Moldenke