Re: Re: CULT: alien weed - Cuscuta
- Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: CULT: alien weed - Cuscuta
- From: "J. Griffin Crump" j*@erols.com
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:30:17 -0500
Oops -- yeah! Now that we learn that it PENETRATES the host plant, NO,
DON'T USE ROUNDUP! -- Griff
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From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris photos" <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] Re: CULT: alien weed - Cuscuta
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Only sure disposal method I know is burning - both dodder and host
> plant. Fragments will resprout.
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> 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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