Parasitic Flowering Plants

• The organism who is being robbed of its food supply is called the host. The parasitic mode of existence can be found throughout the kingdoms of life, from bacteria and fungi to insects, arachnids and worms. Parasitism has also evolved in many families of flowering plants. Some heterotrophic flowering plants get their nutrition from mycorrhizal soil fungi that are in turn attached to the roots of forest trees.
• When one organism steals all of its food from another organism's body it is called a parasite.
• their host (such as dodder).
• Some stem parasites, such as a local southern California desert native, are endoparasitic and live completely within the stems of their host. The only part of Pilostyles that emerges from the host is a tiny bud that opens into a minute red flower. This is similar to a pimple appearing on your face that bursts into a tiny blossom. Of all the more than 230,000 species of flowering plants, the root and stem parasites certainly include some of the most bizarre and beautiful species.
• Without a doubt, some of the strangest and most beautiful flowers on earth come from root parasites. There are several fascinating families of root parasites in the New World region. . In fact, some members of the Figwort Family, such as Castilleja and Pedicularis, are partially parasitic on the roots of nearby shrubs. The flower stalk of some broomrapes resembles a dense snapdragon flower cluster pushing upward through the soil; however, unlike snapdragons, the flower stalk is without...

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