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- Striga, commonly known as witchweed, is a genus of parasitic plants that occur naturally in parts of Africa, Asia, and Australia. It is currently classified...
- Striga hermonthica, commonly known as purple witchweed or giant witchweed, is a hemiparasitic plant that belongs to the family Orobanchaceae. It is devastating...
- Striga asiatica, the Asiatic witchweed or the red witchweed, is a hemiparasitic plant in the family Orobanchaceae. It is native to Asia and sub-Saharan...
- either wholly like the broomrapes, Orobanche, or partially like the witchweeds, Striga. Hot, cold, wet, dry, fresh, salt Carnegiea gigantea, the saguaro...
- among the most economically destructive of all plants. Species of Striga (witchweeds) are estimated to cost billions of dollars a year in crop yield loss,...
- maize and sorghum fields to suppress witchweeds, including Asiatic witchweed (Striga asiatica) and purple witchweed (S. hermonthica) and to repel Chilo...
- This is a parasitic noxious weed, Striga gesnerioides, commonly called Witchweed....
- seeds need to be quite close to the host plant. For example, the seeds of witchweed (Striga asiatica) need to be within 3 to 4 millimeters (mm) of its host...
- stem-boring gr**** moth, and suppresses witchweeds, including Asiatic witchweed (Striga asiatica) and purple witchweed (S. hermonthica). Symb. Antill. 8: 292...
- Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-8138-0279-4. Retrieved 31 July 2010. "The African Witchweed menace". Global Food Security. December 2009. Retrieved 7 October 2015...