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| Halbi Name | Amarbel |
Main Photo of The Weed |
| Vernacular name | ||
| Scientific name | Cuscuta chinensis L. | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Slender leafless parasitic weed. Stem yellowish green, turning yellow, purple and brown at age. | |
| Leaves | not | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Apparently globose, white, changes red later, aggregated in dense glomerule. Calyx as long as and loosely fitting round the corlla tube. Corolla lobes obtuse or slightly acute. | |
| Fruit/ seed | Sigma globose | |
| Habitat and distribution | Paraite on niger, Blackgram, greengram, gram | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to October | |
| Associated with | Rabi crops | |
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