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    Cassytha is a genus of some two dozen species of obligately parasitic vines in the family Lauraceae. Superficially, and in some aspects of their ecology...
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    Cassytha filiformis or love-vine is an orangish, wiry, parasitic vine in the family Lauraceae. It is found in coastal forests of warm tropical regions...
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    trees and shrubs, especially in tropical and temperate climates. The genus Cassytha is unique in the Lauraceae in that its members are parasitic vines. Most...
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    Cassytha pubescens is a native Australian hemiparasitic vine species, in the Laurel family. Common names for the species include devils twine, dodder-laurel...
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    Cassytha racemosa (common name - dodder laurel) is a parasitic perennial in the Lauraceae family. It is found in Western Australia. The species was first...
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    Cassytha glabella, commonly known as the slender devil's twine, is a common twining plant of the Laurel family, found in many of the moister parts of Australia...
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    Cactus pendulus Sw. Cactus quadrangularis Haw. Cassytha baccifera J.S.Muell. Cassytha filiformis Mill. Cassytha polysperma Aiton ex Gaertn. Cereus bacciferus...
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    Cassytha melantha is a parasitic vine. Common names include coarse dodder-laurel and large dodder-laurel. The fruits are about 10–15 millimetres (0.39–0...
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    twine from one plant to another, parasitic plants such as Cuscuta and Cassytha have been shown to convey phytoplasmal and viral diseases between plants...
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    also is applied to alleged aphrodisiacs, such as Caribbean species of Cassytha, which are unrelated to Clematis, not being in the family Ranunculaceae...
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    Parkinson's disease because of its stimulating effect on dopamine receptors. Cassytha filiformis, a plant used in African traditional medicine, contains many...
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  • Lauraceae, Genus Cassytha Cassytha ciliolata Nees, indigenous Cassytha filiformis L. indigenous Cassytha pondoensis Engl. endemic Cassytha pondoensis Engl...
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    respects it closely resembles the similarly parasitic, but unrelated genus, Cassytha. From mid-summer to early autumn, the vines can produce small fruit that...
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  • the host and the parasite so intimately that parasitic twiners such as Cassytha may act as vectors carrying disease organisms from one host plant to another...
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  • Cassytha species alleged to have aphrodisiac properties Clematis virginiana, a North American ornamental vine. Cuscuta species confused with Cassytha...
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    realised it was a cactus. Instead, he assumed he had found a new species of Cassytha, a parasitic laurel from a completely different plant family. In the taxonomic...
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    Glochidion, Styphelia, Bidens, Xylosma, Garnotia, Sphenomeris, Lycopodium, and Cassytha. The grass-like sedges Gahnia schoenoides and Machaerina bidwellii [ceb;...
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  • its hosts. More complex interactions are possible; the parasitic plant Cassytha filiformis sometimes preferentially feeds on galls induced by the cynipid...
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    Ficus, bay cedar (Suriana maritima). Herbs—mainly the parasitic vine Cassytha filiformis as well as Euphorbia tannensis ssp. eremophila and grasses (mainly...
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    Prunus virginiana Clove cherry Prunus apetala Coarse dodder-laurel fruit Cassytha melantha Cocoplum Chrysobalanus icaco Coconut Cocos nucifera Coffeeberry...
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    in Tasmania. The wingspan is about 30 mm. The larvae feed on Cassytha glabella and Cassytha pubescens. Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley (May 3, 2007)...
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    β-nupharidine. In vitro, tests of some aporphine derivatives isolated from Cassytha filiformis, namely, actinodaphnine, cassythine, and dicentrine, showed...
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    Growth habit of Cassytha glabella...
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    purslane as well as the spiderling Boerhavia repens, the parasitic vine Cassytha filiformis, and Pacific Island thintail (Lepturus repens) supplement it...
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    risk after bushfires and have perished after being tangled up in dodder (Cassytha) or bidgee-widgee (Acaena novae-zelandiae). The Australian boobook generally...
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    975 feet. The indigenous kaunaʻoa pehu (literally "swollen kaunaʻoa") Cassytha filiformis is a similar-looking species with the same parasitic nature...
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    about 20 mm. The larvae have been recorded feeding on Cassytha aurea, Cassytha filiformis and Cassytha pubescens. C. e. erinus (Darwin, Cape York to northern...
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    metres per year) tall evergreen tree with a straight bole (usually host to Cassytha, a parasitic vine with leaves reduced to scales, up to half of the tree's...
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    Other threats include non-native plant species, especially kaunaoa pehu (Cassytha filiformis), kiawe (Prosopis pallida), Chinese violet (Asystasia gangetica)...
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  • and New South Wales). The wingspan is about 30 mm. The larvae feed on Cassytha pubescens. Candalides at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Lepidoptera...
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