dsc01910 - California Dodder - Cuscuta californica

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A Dodder parasitic plant is eating up a bush - Death Valley (California)

 

This bizare orange leafless plant has no roots and it feeds by squeezing nutrients off the host plant that it eventually kills!

 

For more information, read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta

 

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