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Cuscuta is without leaves and chlorophyll. How does it obtain food?

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Answered by Anonymous
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Cuscuta is a parasitic plant. It has no chlorophyll and cannot make its own food by photosynthesis. Instead, it grows on other plants, using their nutrients for its growth and weakening the host plant. ... Once they are firmly attached to a host, the cuscuta root withers away.

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Answered by tulipmishra08
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In Parasitic mode of nutrition the parasitic plant deprives valuable nutrients from the host plant. That is why cuscuta is without leaves and chlorophyll, it also doesn't need to prepare its own food by the process of photosynthesis. Hence it can survive without leaves and chlorophyll.

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