Q:I have a lot of dodder (haven't kept after it) in one of the raised beds in which I am growing vegetables. Had a little last year, but this is a mess. Is the only way to get rid of it to replace the ...

A dodder plant begins its life looking like a tapeworm. The tiny plant, which will never grow leaves or roots, elongates in a spindly spiral. Round and round it swirls, searching for a host plant.

I wasn’t sure if I should write about a plant that few people are aware of or ever notice. But watching a short YouTube video convinced me. In the video, scientists placed a small wheat plant and a ...

As much as I love the color orange, when I see stringy orange masses along the roadways, I am not happy. The vine in question is dodder, an annual parasitic vine related to morning glory. Its thin, ...

One of my traveler friends sent me a photo of her flowers invaded by a strange, almost alien-type growth. A yellow, spaghetti-like plant called dodder seemed to come from nowhere and entangled her ...

Plants of the genus Cuscuta have colorful folk names, such as wizard's net, devil's guts, strangle tare or witch's hair. They are leaf- and rootless parasites and grow on their host plants without ...

A. According to Bob Allen, a professor of biology at Santa Ana College and Irvine Valley College, the varieties of dodder growing in the area are native. The term “dodder” is used for more than 150 ...

The plant genus Cuscuta consists of more than 200 species that can be found almost all over the world. The parasites, known as dodder, but also called wizard's net, devil's hair or strangleweed, feed ...

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources [DENR] is working with Aberfeldy Nurseries to track down basil plants infested with dodder, saying that “it is of critical importance that the ...

On July 31st, 2020, a former Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) employee was gifted a basil plant, which had been purchased at a local plant nursery. Accompanying the yellowing ...

One of the newest invasive exotics in California is hard to miss, but maybe also hard to see because it doesn't look much like a plant at all. It's Cuscuta japonica, "Japanese" dodder, a parasite ...