Question

What is parasitic nutrition in plants?

Answer 1

Answer:

Parasitic plant, plant that obtains all or part of its nutrition from another plant (the host) without contributing to the benefit of the host and, in some cases, causing extreme damage to the host. ... All parasitic plant species are angiosperms, among which parasitism has evolved independently about 12 times.

Answer 2

Parasitic nutrition is a type of nutrition in which the organisms live on or inside the body of their host and derive their food from them. The organism which obtains the food is called a parasite and the organism from whose body food is obtained is called the host parasite usually harms the host. Parasitic mode of nutrition is seen in several fungi, bacteria, a few plants like cuscuta and animals like plasmodium.