Why Cuscuta is considered as total stem parasite?
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A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirement from another living plant. ... Alternately, plants like Cuscuta and Orobanche connect only to the phloem of the host (phloem-feeding). This provides them with the ability to extract water and nutrients from the host.
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cuscuta derives nutrition from plants it has grown on It do not contain chlorophyll and can't make it's own food that's why it is a total stem parasite
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