How does the cuscuta plant take its nutrition from the host??

1.	How does the cuscuta plant take its nutrition from the host??
Answer» ______________________________ᴀɴsᴡᴇʀ________Cuscuta is a parasitic plant. It has no chlorophyll and cannot MAKE its own food by photosynthesis. Instead, it grows on other plants, USING their NUTRIENTS for its growth and weakening the host plant.The plant Cuscuta derives its nutrition from the host plant by sending its root-like structures into the stem or roots of the host plant to ABSORB water, mineral salts and food from it. This TYPE of nutrition is known as Parasitic Nutrition.________________________________

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