The correct answer is Parasite.
Key Points
- Cuscuta:
- It is a stem parasite. Hence, Option 2 is correct.
- It is also known as Amarbel in India.
- A parasitic plant is a plant that obtains all or part of its nutrition from another plant (the host) without contributing to the benefit of the host and, in some cases, causing extreme damage to the host.
- The defining structural feature of a parasitic plant is the haustorium, a specialized organ that penetrates the host and forms a vascular union between the plants.
Additional Information
- Saprophytes are living organisms that live and feed on dead and decaying organisms.
- An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
- Host plants are plants that an organism lives on and lives off of.


