Heroic green silk trees turn hornets into mummies
Green silk is a parasitic plant, whose scientific name is Cassytha filiformis. This terrifying plant specializes in sucking up nutrients in the wasps and turning bees into dry bodies.
Green silk is a parasitic plant, whose scientific name is Cassytha filiformis. This terrifying plant specializes in sucking up nutrients in the wasps and turning bees into dry bodies.
Green silk is distributed throughout the tropics. This parasitic creeper is popular in Latin America, Western India, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka as well as in Vietnam.
Green silk is a kind of vines, dark green.
Green silk often 'sneaks' into gallbladder on oak leaves - where parasitic wasps store eggs and protect its young, draining out the nutrients of bees, turning it into dry flesh.
Green silk is a kind of vines, dark green. Its leaves are very small and are reduced to scales. Flowers are small, white, arranged in cotton from 1.5cm to 5cm long. Green silk usually grows parasitic on shrubs and grows wild in hills and mountains, producing many fruits every year.
This plant regenerates mainly naturally from seeds but it also has the ability to regenerate asexually from the stem segments, or branches when exposed to the host or canopy.
Although often referred to as harmful plants, this plant is also used in medicine, has a low thermal, beneficial, detoxifying, diuretic effect. Even in India, green silk is used to treat bile liver disease. In Indonesia, green silk is used as a worm remover.
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