Scientific Name: Cassytha filiformis

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  • Pronunciation:
    cas-SIGH-tha fill-ee-FORM-iss
  • Common Name:
    Downy Dodder, Dodder Laurel
  • Type:
    Parasite herb trailing , vine
  • Family:
    LAURACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Up to 10 flowers 2 mm apart on spike to 8 cm. All year
  • Fruit:
    sessile, globose to 5 mm
  • Vegetation Type:
    Heath,
  • Species List:
    SBHS, Bush food, Craft, Emu Mt., NLTalks2010, Biosphere Day Noosa Woods, Peregian Boardwalk, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, St. Teresa's, Meridan College, Pindari Steiner School, Cooroibah26.4.09, Kingfisher Bay Resort, Wooroi Palm Grove, Upper Mt. Tinbeerwah, Fraser Island, Johns, Batianoff 87, Upper Yandina Creek, BHNR
Cultural Notes

TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:

Bush food: fruit edible.

Used as fibre source.

Used by florists.

Identification Notes

Flowers and fruits sessile in spikes. Smooth, young parts hairy Inflorescence spicate. Leafless (Tiny scale leaves), twining hemi-parasitic stems with suckers. Not yellow. Stems bright yellow-green, orange to dark red, drying irregularly striate; mostly < 1 mm thick, pubescent to glabrescent; haustoria

Associated Fauna

Butterfly host plant: Common dusky blue, Small dusky blue. ||