Esperance Wildflowers: Cassytha melantha - Large Dodder Laurel
2012年4月6日 · The flowers of this Large Dodder Laurel produce an amazing perfume when you get to within two metres of them, which attracts small flying insects like flies, etc, to pollinate them. The flowers are small (2-3 mm, or less than 1/8” diameter), so would not …
Cassytha - a parasitic plant — Life in a Southern Forest
2017年7月12日 · Flowers form on the Cassytha stems in late Spring and develop into tiny berry-like fruit when pollinated. The fruit is probably eaten and disseminated by birds or otherwise drops into the soil around the host plant to complete the life-cycle.
Cassytha - Wikipedia
Various species of Cassytha bear flowers in racemes, spikes, or heads. Depending on the species, the flowers are sessile or pedicellate. The individual flowers are hermaphroditic and bracteolate, each being attended by a bract and two smaller bracteoles. In general, the flowers are small, so much so that in many species they are inconspicuous. [19]
Cassytha melantha - Useful Temperate Plants
2024年10月13日 · The flowers produce an amazing perfume when you get to within 2 metres of them, which attracts small flying insects like flies, etc, to pollinate them. Edible Uses None known
NParks | Cassytha filiformis - National Parks Board
Its flowers are insect-pollinated. Its fruits are dispersed by birds. It is propagated by seeds. Medicinal: It is considered astringent and diuretic. The stems are also used as a tonic infusion in China, India and Vietnam for piles and diarrhoea. The stems are also used externally for cleaning ulcers and an infusion is used as eyewash.
Cassytha filiformis (love-vine) | CABI Compendium - CABI Digital …
Bellot and Renner (2013) suggested that Cassytha is pollinated by nectar-foraging flies or bees according to its floral morphology. Cassytha filiformis is propagated vegetatively and by seeds, which are abundantly produced each season.
Cassytha L. - World Flora Online
Stem green or gray-brown, filiform, branched. Leaves reduced to minute scales. Flowers small, bisexual (plants rarely dioecious or nearly dioecious due to abortion), inserted in stalked or stalkless scalelike bracts, each with 2 bracteoles adnate to perianth base, all arranged into a spicate, capitate, or racemose inflorescence.
Family Cassythaceae - biocyclopedia.com
Reproductive type, pollination. Plants hermaphrodite. Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed morphology. Flowers aggregated in ‘inflorescences’; in racemes, or in spikes, or in heads, or in umbels, or in panicles. Inflorescences axillary; sessile or pedunculate heads, panicles, spikes, umbels and racemes; without involucral bracts.
PlantNET - FloraOnline - Botanic Gardens
Description: Herbaceous twiners with thread-like stems containing chlorophyll, hemiparasitic on herbs, shrubs or trees. A single stem may parasitize many different host species (including itself), the xylem of the parasite connecting with the xylem of the host by means of haustoria.
Angiosperm families - Cassythaceae Bartl. ex Lindl.
Reproductive type, pollination. Unisexual flowers absent. Plants hermaphrodite. Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed morphology. Flowers aggregated in inflorescences ; in racemes, or in spikes, or in heads, or in umbels, or in panicles.