This is Golden Lantern Vine, also known as Japanese Cuscuta, mother Cuscuta, large Cuscuta, annual parasitic twining herbs, stout, fleshy stems, 1-2 mm in diameter, yellow, often with purplish-red verrucous spots, multi-branched, leafless, glabrous. Flowering in August, fruiting in September.

Corolla campanulate, light red or greenish white, 3-5 mm long, lobes ovate-triangular, oblong, margin fimbriate, inserted at the base of the corolla tube, elongating to the middle of the corolla tube or above the middle, the ovary globose, smooth, glabrous. Capsule ovoid, ca. 5 mm, circumscissile near base. Seeds 1-2, smooth, 2-2.5 mm long, brown.

Golden Lantern Vine likes hot and humid climate, is not strict on the soil requirements, adaptable. Cuscuta is a malignant parasitic weed, itself rootless and leafless, by means of a special organ - sucker to suck the host plant's nutrition. In addition to parasitizing herbaceous plants, golden lantern vine can also parasitize lianas and woody plants. It can also parasitize graminaceous plants such as rice, reeds and lily plants such as onions.

The seeds are used medicinally, and their effects are the same as those of Cuscuta. It is a good medicine to calmly tonify the kidney, liver and spleen. Jinlangdeng vine is sweet and warm, and belongs to the kidney, liver and spleen meridians, with the effects of nourishing the liver and kidney, fixing the essence and shrinking the urination, stabilizing the fetus, brightening the eyes and stopping the diarrhea, which was first published in Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica (The Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica), and was classified as a top grade.

Growing environment: Born in the field, wasteland, thicket, parasitized on plants that can be climbed. Seed reproduction, parasitic growth, if planted, in the flowering period can be sprayed with sea meal Wo water-soluble fertilizer, can make the leaves thick green, good growth.

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