Re: CULT: alien weed - Cuscuta
- Subject: [iris-photos] Re: CULT: alien weed - Cuscuta
- From: Linda Mann l*@volfirst.net
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:42:40 -0500
Lots of species of dodder (Cuscuta) are native, some not. It's related
to morning glory, but is parasitic. Because part of the dodder is
<inside> the host plant, just removing the visible part of the dodder
<vine> won't get rid of it.
I don't know what Roundup and other systemic plant poisons would do -
might be translocated from the dodder to the host plant and kill both.
Only sure disposal method I know is burning - both dodder and host
plant. Fragments will resprout.
I don't remember ever having it in my garden, but see it occasionally
out in fields. The species I've seen must not be too successful - never
much of it or in very large patches, & I don't remember seeing it in the
same places from year to year.
Web surf turned up interesting tidbit that it was used in pre-Columbian
times as a dye in Mexico.
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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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