Round and round it swirls, searching for a host plant. When the dodder finds one, it latches on and infiltrates the host with tiny tubes that siphon off water and nutrients. The parasitic dodder ...

I wasn’t sure if I should write about a plant that ... and sucking out water, minerals and nutrients. Once established with a suitable host, the connection to the dodder’s soil root is severed.

Why bother when you can drain food and water from the neighbors? A dodder seedling, basically a bare stem, finds that first neighbor by writhing and groping (in slow plant time) toward attractive ...

The dodder uses its haustoria, instead of leaves or roots, to leech water and nutrients out of its host. And it keeps growing larger, throwing out more spindly vines that grab on to more plants ...

The plant genus Cuscuta consists of more than 200 species that can be found almost all over the world. The parasites, known as dodder ... absorb nutrients and water from the soil.