Cuscuta epithymum  (common dodder)

Photo of Cuscuta epithymum by Niall Williams

© Niall Williams (Photo ID #10464)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location Coquitlam
Photographer Niall Williams
Habitat old orchard, meadow
Photo Date September 10, 2007
Upload Date September 12, 2007
Elevation (m)
Latitude 49.2433319091797
Longitude -122.813056945801
Photo ID # 10464
Comments Parasitizing Cytisus scoparius;Scots broom . Stems in this case red, but they vary to straw-coloured. First reported at Colony Farm in 1914, by Edward Bence Stinchcombe. Ed was overseer of grounds & works from 1903 until several months before his death in 1929.