South Africa, 2025
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South Africa, 2025
Check out this fascinating 'Cat’s Claw/Katnaels' plant Hyobanche sanguinea. It is a holoparasite, which means it attaches itself to the roots of other plants to draw water and nutrients. It prefers sandy plains, both in western and northern cape. #SouthAfricanPlant #Orobanchaceae
Hyobanche, a root parasite.
South Africa, 2025
Bright red root parasites
South Africa, 2025
South Africa, 2025
#FlowerFriday This bunch of lovely & interesting pink blooms sprouting up from the sand dunes is of the Cat’s Claw flower (Hyobanche species), a root parasite…it cannot photosynthesise, so it must feed off the nutrients produced by other nearby plants. #flowers #catsclaw #hyobanche #botany #plants #plantsofsouthafrica #parasiticplants #rootparasite #scicomm #bloom #blossoms #pink @botsocsa @grbotsoc @sanbi_za (at Keurboomstrand, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP_bglnAtlK/?utm_medium=tumblr