Some flowers release a pleasing fragrance. Other plants smell. And then there's the parasitic dodder vine, which has the remarkable ability to sniff out its victims. Farmers have placed the dodder - ...

Fred from Boardman submitted this photo to the OSU Extension Plant and Pest Clinic of a vine growing around his petunias. Master Gardeners identified it as a dodder vine, a parasitic plant also known ...

As much as I love the color orange, when I see stringy orange masses along the roadways, I am not happy. The vine in question is dodder, an annual parasitic vine related to morning glory. Its thin, ...

Dodder is a fairly common native leafless parasitic vine. This fast-growing slender vine sprouts from a small seed and must quickly climb into or onto a host plant. If it does not reach into a host ...

Ever heard of a dodder vine? I hadn’t – until I read “What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses” by Daniel Chamovitz. Turns out this widespread vine, all gawky and gangly, has what you might ...

Dodder vines are parasitic plants that suck water, nutrients and information from other plants as they spread over them. Plant biologists have now shown that they can make plants resistant to dodder ...

Plants, of course, don't have noses. But there is a vine that can smell the difference between a tomato and a stalk of wheat. "Plants smell," says botanist Daniel Chamovitz. Yes, they give off odors, ...

Q: I have a vitex bush that I purchased from a local nursery about a year ago. It keeps getting covered with a vine that doesn’t have any leaves. Branches are dying; it is as if it is strangling the ...

Unable to produce its own food, the dodder vine must live entirely off a host plant. In a series of experiments, Researchers Consuelo M. De Moraes and Mark Mescher show that to find a host plant from ...

It goes by witch’s hair, strangleweed, devil’s gut, wizard’s net, and hellbine. And anyone who sees dodder vines in action will quickly understand why they’ve earned such dastardly, eldritch names.