Parasitic nutrition

Dodder(cascuya sp).a flowering plants live on the aerial part a wide variety of higher flowering plants which act as host.it lack chlorophyll and a well developed root system and obtain it's food from its host by means of specialized food absorbing organ called haustoria 

Which penetrate into and withdraw nourishment from the tissues of the host plant. This mode of nutrition is parasites. Other examples of parasitic plant include mistletoe. And the fungus causing the black pod disease of cocoa(phytophora sp). Majority of fungi and bacteria exhibit saprophitic mode of nutrition. A saprophyte utilize dead tissue or decaying

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