Scientific Name: Cassytha glabella

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  • Pronunciation:
    cah-SIGH-tha gla-BELL-ah
  • Common Name:
    Dodder, Slender Devil\'s Twine
  • Type:
    Parasite
  • Family:
    LAURACEAE
  • Status:
    Common
  • Flowers:
    mainly spring to autumn, up to 6 flowers on spikes to 8 mm.
  • Fruit:
    Ovoid fruit to 4 mm in crowded heads.
  • Flowers Color:
    White
  • Fruit Color:
    Red
  • Vegetation Type:
    Eucalypt Forest and Coastal Dry Heath
  • Species List:
    Bush food, Craft, Weyba Nature Refuge, Eumarella Rd., Fraser Island, Johns, Batianoff 87, TAFE, Girraween, Marcus Dunes
Cultural Notes

Bush food: small mature fruit eaten raw.||Stems used as fibre source.||

Identification Notes

Cassytha filiformis and Cassytha pubescens are similar in appearance and also occur in Noosa Shire

Associated Fauna

Host plant for butterflies. Known food plant of Ground Parrots. Butterfly host plant: Common dusky blue, Small dusky blue.