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Cuscuta japonica

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Choisy

Common Names

• Jin deng teng (Pinyin)
• Cay tà hông (Vietnam)
• Ne-nashi-kazura (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Gunagxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Nei Mongol
• Ningxia
• Qinghai
• Shaanxi
• Shandong
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xinjiang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Islands
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• Laos
• Russia
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• On herbs & shrubs
• streamside shrubland
• lowlands & mountains.

Flowering Times

• Aug (China)
• Aug-Oct (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Sep (China)

Fleshy twining parasitic herb with yellow stems often with purplish spots, scalelike leaves to 2mm long. Lateral & terminal spikes to 30mm long, of pink or greenish-white flowers to 5mm long with oval bracts to 1mm long, calyx 3mm x 2mm with 5 lobes to 1mm, corolla 5mm long with 5 lobes to 1mm, fruit to 5mm diameter surmounted by style

Seeds used medicinally

Further References

• FOC
• NYBG
• Thai F
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• FOJ
• Kew