Cassytha glabella
False Dodder
Cassytha filiformis
L. Species
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- Botanical name
- Cassytha filiformis
- Also known as
- Bush-Dodder, Devil's Gut, Dodder-Laurel, False Dodder, Lovevine, Seashore-Dodder, Woevine
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Genus
- Cassytha
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow False Dodder
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Cassytha filiformis but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Calodium cochinchinense
Calodium cochinchinensis
Cassytha americana
Cassytha americana var. brachystachya
Cassytha americana var. brasiliensis
Cassytha americana var. puberula
Cassytha aphylla
Cassytha archboldiana
Cassytha brasiliensis
Cassytha corniculata
Cassytha cuscutiformis
Cassytha dissitiflora
Cassytha filiformis f. pycnantha
Cassytha filiformis subsp. guineensis
Cassytha filiformis var. pseudopubescens
Cassytha filiformis var. puberula
Cassytha filiformis var. subpubescens
Cassytha guineensis
Cassytha guineensis var. livingstonii
Cassytha lifuensis
Cassytha macrocarpa
Cassytha novoguineensis
Cassytha paradoxae
Cassytha senegalensis
Cassytha timoriensis
Cassytha zeylanica
Rumputris fasciculata
Spironema aphylla
Volutella aphylla
Others in Cassytha
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