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Dodgy Dodders

A neon-colored, spaghetti-like mass covers a large

tree. It looks like an alien life-form. But the mass is

actually a plant parasite called cuscuta. Its common

name is dodder. This strange plant doesn’t have

roots or leaves. Instead, it has many slender stems.

4 Dodder draped over a tree