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    Phaneroga MS: Parasitic Flowering Plants

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    This document discusses two types of parasitic flowering plants: hemiparasites and true parasites. Hemiparasites depend on hosts for water and minerals but can produce their own food, such as witchweed and mistletoes. True parasites cannot produce their own food and obtain it entirely from hosts, like dodder vines that wind around hosts and broomrapes that fuse their roots to hosts to siphon nutrients.

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    This document discusses two types of parasitic flowering plants: hemiparasites and true parasites. Hemiparasites depend on hosts for water and minerals but can produce their own food, such as witchweed and mistletoes. True parasites cannot produce their own food and obtain it entirely from hosts, like dodder vines that wind around hosts and broomrapes that fuse their roots to hosts to siphon nutrients.

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    This document discusses two types of parasitic flowering plants: hemiparasites and true parasites. Hemiparasites depend on hosts for water and minerals but can produce their own food, such as witchweed and mistletoes. True parasites cannot produce their own food and obtain it entirely from hosts, like dodder vines that wind around hosts and broomrapes that fuse their roots to hosts to siphon nutrients.

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    Phaneroga MS: Parasitic Flowering Plants

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    This document discusses two types of parasitic flowering plants: hemiparasites and true parasites. Hemiparasites depend on hosts for water and minerals but can produce their own food, such as witchweed and mistletoes. True parasites cannot produce their own food and obtain it entirely from hosts, like dodder vines that wind around hosts and broomrapes that fuse their roots to hosts to siphon nutrients.

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    PHANEROGA

    MS
    Parasitic Flowering Plants
    A. Hemiparasites
    • Depend on their hosts
    for water and minerals
    but not for
    photosynthates
    because their leaves
    contain chlorophyll
    A. Hemiparasites
    • ex. Striga asiatica (witchweed) –
    cause severe damage
    in corn, sugarcane and
    sorghum by attaching
    their roots on the host
    then using up the water
    and minerals taken up
    by the host
    A. Hemiparasites

    • ex. Phoradendrons sp. –


    • The “true mistletoes”
    which parasitize
    conifers and most
    broad-leaved trees
    • Cause swellings in
    the host
    B. The True Parasites

    • ex. Cuscutta sp. –


    • The “dodders”
    • Form yellow to
    orange leafless
    vine strands
    around the
    host
    B. The True Parasites

    • ex. Cuscutta sp. –


    • The stem winds the host
    and produce haustoria
    which penetrates the
    phloem tissues obtaining
    food for its growth
    while depriving the host
    B. The True Parasites

    • ex. Orobanche sp. –


    • the “broomrapes”
    • Clusters of yellowish,
    brownish or purplish stems
    arising from the soil at the
    base of the host
    B. The True Parasites

    • ex. Orobanche sp.


    • When the seeds germinate, its roots
    attach to the roots
    of the host and fuse
    with them

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