Cuscuta: a parasitic plant

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Went for a morning walk and spotted Cuscuta. It is a parasitic plant which wraps itself around a host plant and survives on food produced by the host.
I took a small section of it with a sharp blade and observed it under the Foldscope. Section was good enough to see different parts of it.

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