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Cuscuta is often evident either hanging from tree branches or simply decorating and mercilessly strangling roadside verges like some discarded seamstress's orange thread.
Evil Eye 2005
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Cuscuta is often evident either hanging from tree branches or simply decorating and mercilessly strangling roadside verges like some discarded seamstress's orange thread.
Evil Eye 2005
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Cuscuta is often evident either hanging from tree branches or simply decorating and mercilessly strangling roadside verges like some discarded seamstress's orange thread.
Evil Eye 2005
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The parasitic plant dodder Cuscuta donates genes to the host plants around which it is entwined.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The parasitic plant dodder Cuscuta donates genes to the host plants around which it is entwined.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Phoradendron species are "hemiparasites", meaning that they are capable of some photosynthesis and have green leaves, unlike Cuscuta.
Evil Eye 2005
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Phoradendron species are "hemiparasites", meaning that they are capable of some photosynthesis and have green leaves, unlike Cuscuta.
Evil Eye 2005
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Phoradendron species are "hemiparasites", meaning that they are capable of some photosynthesis and have green leaves, unlike Cuscuta.
Evil Eye 2005
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One favorite treatment for sciatica used by Cherokee herbalist David Winston is a combined extract of sweet melilot (Melilotus alba), dodder (Cuscuta americana), and sweet or black birth (Betula lenta).
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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In the Near East the tree is subject to attack by various beetles of the genus Capnodis and by Cuscuta monogyna.
Chapter 7 1983
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