Parasite Dodder Time lapse Parasitic Plants

Parasitic plants Dodder. Not all plants contain chlorophyll or possess leaves or even roots. There are always the exceptions to be found in the natural world. Dodder is such a parasitic plant. Able to obtain all of its food in order to reproduce, without the aid of doing anything other than sucking the life out of it s host, another plant. Like some crazy Sci Fi movie, the Dodder parasite merges with it s host where the Dodder s tissues are almost indistinguishable from the host tissue except for that tra