Cuscuta Seed Extract

Cuscuta chinensis (scientific name: Cuscuta chinensis Lam.), also known as Zenzhen, bean parasite, bean hell, yellow silk, yellow silk vine, chicken blood vine, golden silk vine, etc. Annual parasitic herb. The stems are twining, yellow, slender, and leafless. The inflorescence is lateral, with few or many flowers clustered into small umbels or small umbels; the bracts and bracteoles are small and scale-like; the pedicel is slightly thicker; the calyx is cup-shaped, united below the middle, and the lobes are triangular; the corolla is white , pot-shaped; stamens bearing corolla lobes are curved and slightly missing at the lower part; scales are oblong; ovary is subglobose, styles 2. Capsule spherical, almost entirely surrounded by persistent corolla. Seeds 2-49, light brown, ovate, about 1 mm long, rough surface.

Distributed in China, Iran, Afghanistan, Japan, North Korea, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and Australia. It grows on the edges of fields, sunny places on hillsides, roadside shrubs or seaside dunes at an altitude of 200-3000 meters. It is usually parasitic on various plants such as Leguminosae, Asteraceae and Tribulus.

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