Parasitic works are plant that have develop the power to straight use the nutrients produced by other industrial plant . They attach themselves to the branches , body or solution of a host . Some type have the power to produce their own nutrients as well with photosynthesis . Florida is home to many different species that attack the local pine forests as well as some agricultural crops .
American Mistletoe
American mistletoe ( scientific name Phoradendron leucarpum ) is the common false mistletoe found hanging in homes during Christmas metre . It inhabit deciduous hardwood trees suckle sap from the endure layer of wood under the tree ’s bark . Mistletoe leaves do contain chlorophyl and it is subject of producing its own nutrients but it also can use the fool from the host plant . The host plant life is also its elemental source of water .
Mistletoe Berry contain a very sticky seed . When bird eat the Chuck Berry they often demand to use a branch to wipe the seeds off their beaks . The seeds remain stuck to the tree diagram arm , develop and then bond themselves to the host tree . Old World mistletoe forms dull clumps about 1 to 3 ft across that are most detectable after the tree have lose their leaves in the declination .
Tree Dodder
The tree , or magniloquent , dodder ( scientific name Cuscuta exaltata ) is a very rarified species of dodder that attacks trees instead of low-spirited shrubs . It has only been realize in seven counties in Florida and in Texas . This dodder attacks southerly resilient oak , elms and several other type of tree . It is slightly turgid than regular dodders and is a reddish - Au color .
Dodders are wiry parasitic annuals without chlorophyl that grow from seeds . Once a vine touches a host industrial plant , it tie itself and taps into the hold up layer of plant that lie just under the bark . It then delineate nutrients directly from its server and eventually lose contact with the primer coat .
Black-Senna
Black - senna ( scientific name Seymeria cassioides ) is a small one-year shrub that primarily assail true pine , although it has been found in association with other tree species . It is found in the pine forests of Florida , can grow up to 4 foot tall and has many branches . The plant contains chlorophyl and is capable of producing some of its own food , but it requires a innkeeper to survive . The roots develop alongside the roots of the host and attach , tapping the nutrients within . It produces small lily-livered bloom in August through October and set seeds before it dies off and turns wholly black .
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