🔎 How Australian Dodder Chooses Its Host? [Time Lapse]

This video is the clip from EBS Docuprime [Green Animal] Part 2 - Starvation.

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Australian Dodder is an annual herb that grows in mountains and fields, and is parasitic on branches of other plants, usually leguminous plants.

There is no chloroplast in the cell, which conducts photosynthesis, so the plant body is yello. Roots sometimes sprout, but they soon disappear when Australian Dodder becomes parasitic. The stem is about 0.3-0.4mm and is very thin.

It sticks to other grasses and trees and has a length of about 50cm. The leaves are scaly, triangular. Flowers bloom from July to August, and they are white. The flower beak is in the shape of a small bell, the endof the beak is split into 5 branches.

There are five stamens and they don't align with the flower bud. There are two styles. The fruit is a capsule and has the shape of flat sphere. It ripens in August, has a flimsy skin and has a calyx at the bottom. The seeds have a shape of wide oval and are yellowish-white. It is found throughout Korea, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Australia.