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Parasitic Plants
Parasitic Plants: An Introduction
Arceuthobium or Dwarf Mistletoe
Balanophora
Cassytha or Love Vine
Cistanche
Cuscuta or Dodder Climber
Loranthus
Nuytsia or Australian Christmas Tree
Orobanche or Broomrape
Pilostyles or Thurber’s Stemsucker
Rafflesia
Santalum or Sandalwood Tree
Striga or Witch Weed
Viscum or Common Mistletoe
Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Plants
Broadly speaking, a plant is a multicellular photosynthetic eukaryotic life-form that grows in permanent site absorbing water and nutrients from its growing media through a well-developed root system for its growth and development. All plants are members of the Plant Kingdom (Kingdom Plantae). There are different types of plants: small and big, seed-bearing and non-seed bearing, flowering and non-flowering, aquatic and terrestrial, epiphytic and lithophytic, parasitic and saprophytic, and so on.
It is believed that there are millions of plant species in existence on this planet Earth. However, approximately 4 lakhs species of plants are known to science till date. Out of these plants, about 95% are vascular, flowering and seed- bearing plants, those plants that we see around us every day. Rest 5% comprises of plants that are rare and are less known to the world.
Classification of Plants: Plants may be grouped into different categories based on their uses, functional characteristics, economic importance etc. One major classification that is based on the nutritional aspects of the plants is ‘autotrophic’ and ‘heterotrophic.’
Greek word ‘auto’ means ‘self’, ‘hetero’ means ‘different’ and ‘trophic’ means ‘relating to nutrition’. Autotrophic plants are those plants that are capable of self synthesising their own
food by using light energy.