#Cuscuta

[gaynaturalistghost]

Plants aren’t… peaceful and harmonious, as a rule. Some are incredibly invasive, some produce compounds that prevent others from growing and developing properly, pumping the soil full of toxins (allelopathy). Cuscuta (a genus with ~200sp, also called dodder, the orange one^) was the first parasitic plant I saw, working outside weeding a giant round-about with an ungodly amount of petunias. Weeding petunias makes your arms all sticky (which I still hate them for). One whole side was carpeted in highlighter-orange vines with no leaves, I had to pull them up in armfuls. I’ve spotted them a few times since, once covering a giant hanging basket of petunias in Missouri.

I think it’d be interesting if some plants or The Green were a little more malignant towards Ivy. I know there are plants she’s drawn with, Hedera helix (English Ivy) in particular, are noxious invasives. Bit odd for a botanical ‘ecoterrorist’.

#harlivy #dc #pamela isley #poison ivy but she’s an actual botanist #poison ivy dc #poison ivy fanart #poison ivy comic #illustration #artists on tumblr #character design #botany #cuscuta #dodder #art #concept art #character art #wlw #harley x ivy #poison ivy #harleen quinzel #harley quinn

[dippityart]

#birdy #arthur #edith #leo #ink #pls come back in like. 2 years when i know how to draw a kangaroo properly #cuscuta #art tag

[aformigaatomica]

Na infancia todo é misterio e descubrimento. "Qué é isto", "Por qué", "Para qué sirve". - Iso son barbas do raposo. E o meu raposo imaxinario paseaba toda a noite entre os toxos do cabo da eira, deixando prendidas aquí e acolá as súas barbas... Non o podía crer de todo. Pero quedaba unha lixeira duda ante a maxia (e se sí?) ____ #cuscuta #barbasderaposo #barbasdecapuchino #barbasdecuco #mantodelavirgen #cabellera https://www.instagram.com/p/CeZ9JF0IuR1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#cuscuta #barbasderaposo #barbasdecapuchino #barbasdecuco #mantodelavirgen #cabellera

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Parasitic plants have developed a specialized structure, the haustorium, which is a modified root (Figure 23.36).

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

#book quotes #plant physiology and development #nonfiction #textbook #parasitic plants #haustorium #host plant #plant cells #microscopy #dodder #cuscuta

[eames-with-a-rose]

Pink Cuscuta grows roots underwater

#cuscuta

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#world-prized #tight-limbed #prewelwiring #tentaculi- #untrimming #Cuscuta #Tillery #'slife #nonpurveyance #withinwards #outcount #coffeepots #archaically #ballplayer #oxyopy #diplopods #interregna #Millinocket #wellies #fund

[nymphacae]

it’s only gonna eat you

The second one is a trainwreck min playlist cover, all about Him! Wow! You can listen to it here

#my art #infinity train #trainwreck au #min gi park #ryan akagi #rymin #fun fact! all the plants shown here are parasitic #cuscuta (the buds on Ryan’s arms) leech off other plants for their resources #rafflesia are those big ol Corpse Flowers that infamously smell like death #they penetrate the roots to cause infection #the main flower in the second one is an applegates paintbrush #it’s HALF parasitic! it can live on its own if it so pleases #the more you know! follow for more botanical facts n symbolism #ig the only Nontoxic thing here is the rotting citrus tree but like. no one wants to eat that shit

[crazy-as-a-jaybird]

The Ler™ finally getting payback: ✅

Their lees being around to watch: ✅✅✅

The payback coming from their pets they normally use as tools: ✅✅✅✅✅

#Cuscuta the plant mom #she's my favorite nerdy scoundrel y'all #my art #tickling #sfw tickles #my ocs <3 #tickle art #ocs tickling

[limecordial]

Eri, Elnora and Suletta all have red hair, it's the first thing that stuck out to me due to the title of the series being "witch from mercury" in the British isles red hair is associated with magic and being a witch to the point where a species of dodder (cuscuta europaea a parasitic plant) is called witches hair due to its red vines. This plant leaches off the other plants by attaching itself to the stems in order to steal nutrients, it is known among gardeners for particularly liking tomatoes. Witches hair has also been known to sometimes start accidentally eating itself.

#G witch #Something about suletta and miorine being tomatoes here #This isn't even touching on how in a couple stories witches lose their red hair when they give up their magic #I got too distracted by my fave parasitic plant #European dodder (Cuscuta Europaea) also has more than one coloquial name witches hair is one it's also known as devils guts #If you look up witches hair plant on its own you'll probably get the lichen instead

[thevoidbunny]

THEY GAVE MY GIRL A SKIN!!!!!

#alchemy stars #she's so pretty!!!! #cuscuta is WINNING

[1ore]

Hemiparasites like dodder take and redistribute, they pass on resources from the host to understory species, increasing diversity in their locality of bush. Watson says parasites are keystone resources that boost species richness at the local and regional scales and have a ‘disproportionate influence on community composition and ecosystem processes’ (2009, 1152). Parasites, he says, redistribute resources at the community level for the common good. They mediate higher concentrations of soil nutrients so that neighbouring plants are enriched, and they provide nesting, food and shelter for birds and animals. Mistletoe, for example, ‘By contributing more litter containing more nutrients available over a more extended period,’ creates ‘dramatic changes in the soil and understory vegetation’ (Watson 2011). This is no mutual sharing, no idealistic commons; Dodder-laurel can make life hard for some bushes and trees. However, like other local hemiparasites such as Mistletoe and Cherry Ballart, it doesn’t take from its hosts in an unrestrained manner, but is equipped to coordinate water and nutrient needs with its hosts. Research on Dodder-laurel’s non-biological twin Cuscata species suggests that its attachments are not arbitrary, but chosen (In Defense of Plants 2015). It can sense plants nearby and through its feeler can detect whether the plant has sufficient nutrients to act as a worthwhile host. Dodder chooses only connections that matter, ones that have an impact (Leiff 2014).

The Western notion of the parasite as bad has focused scientific research (what little there is), and popular reactions, on identifying the effects (assumed detrimental) of the parasite on the host. Birds, forest ecology and Indigenous people have a different story to tell. Mistletoe, and the other local hemiparasites, Cherry Ballart and Dodder-laurel, produce tasty edible fruits. The small sweet swellings of the Cherry Ballart, the green fragrant berries of the Dodder-laurel and the red fruits of Mistletoe highlight the alchemy of things—how one set of hemiparasitic plants can convert and transform the energy of gum trees and shrubs into sweet edible delights for humans, birds and animals. The two plants (host and parasite) together make something that neither could do alone. Indigenous Australians use Mistletoe as a food source and use the leaves for traditional remedies (Watson 2011). The name ‘snotty gobble’ for Dodder-laurel derives from the mucus-like feel of the berries in the mouth.

- Becoming Entangled: Queer attachments with hemiparasites (download link)

#not the Same dodder (cuscuta) but god this person is so right

[dippityart]

#birdy #leo #cuscuta #art tag

[indigolovesong]

“were they really sad for me?” cuscuta & chuutarou!

"Yeah!! The cats were really, really sad that you weren't there~ssu!! They didn't even take the fish I put out for them and tried to claw my favorite hat!! This is- what's the word again? Sora-nii keeps complaining about it a lot..." Chuutarou takes a moment to ponder before the light bulb went off in his head.

"Oh! It's favoritism! The cats are sooo mean to me and favor Cuscuta-nee more! Unfair! Just 'cause I tried to hug them the other day~ssu... Why are cats like this?"

#herostatus #{ inbox } #{ innocence who laughs freely like air: rp } #{ im sorry cuscuta chuu never shuts up HFJSKFGLSG }

[thebotanicalarcade]

n209_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Exotic flora, Edinburgh,Printed for W. Blackwood; [etc., etc.]1823-27. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35031575

#19t century #19th century #Botany #Engravings #Exotic plants #Great Britain #Herbals #Pictorial works #Plaatwerken #Plantkunde #Plants #Cultivated #Scotland #Missouri Botanical Garden #Peter H. Raven Library #bhl:page=35031575 #dc:identifier=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35031575 #flickr #cuscuta reflexa #giant dodder #ulan ulan #botanical illustration #scientific illustration

[eyelessfog]

tell me how team ozone would react to someong accidentally setting the curtains on fire

rhyssa would, on principle, believe that cuscuta did it. and chew him out about it because they cost money and no one wants to go buy a replacement

dodder & cuscuta would, for different reasons, believe a stray pokemon did it. dodder because he will blame a pokemon for anything & cuscuta because he thinks the pokemon r really bored & one of the fire types needs more enrichment

gondai set the curtains on fire because she was curious how difficult it would be to pin the blame on someone else when she is literally the fire type trainer. thats her thing. shes the fire type

#[asks] #to be clear they each have their own types that they stick w. cuscuta is water / rhyssa is grass / gondai is fire

[valdevia]

Cuscuta haemotrophica, commonly known as leechweed, is the only parasitic plant known to target animals.

The plant burrows under the skin using modified roots known as haustoria. It does not produce leaves or chlorophyll to photosynthesize, as it consumes nutrients through the host's blood.

Infestation in humans rarely progresses to the blooming stage, when it becomes dangerous and potentially lethal.

#unreality #photoshop #body horror #medical horror #speculative biology