Question

How cuscuta take nutrition from a tree?what is the type of nutrition it involves?

Answer 1

cuscuta take nutrients through roots from a tree and it evolves food

Answer 2

ANSWER:

Cuscatta twins around the host plant or a tree and receive the required nutrition from it. The nutrition involved is parasitic nutrition.

EXPLANATION:

• Cuscatta cannot prepare food themselves due to the lack of Chlorophyll. So, it grows on other plants and uses their nutrients to prepare its food.  

• It twins around the host plant and receive the required nutrition from it.
• Thus cuscatta is called as Parasite and the nutrition it gets is parasitic nutrition.