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How to Grow and Care for Stemsuckers

Stemsuckers is a parasitic plant species that attaches itself to host plants, and thus requires no traditional care methods like watering or feeding. Special care points include ensuring the health of host plants and managing the spread to prevent damage to desired flora. This unique dependency makes stemsuckers particularly difficult to care for due to the reliance on host conditions and the need for specialized knowledge in plant parasitism.

Watering schedule: Every week

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Planting and Growing Stemsuckers

Care Difficulty	Hard
Watering Schedule	Every week

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Types of Stemsuckers

Thurber's stemsucker

It is a tiny parasitic plant, only a few millimeters long, which lives in the stem tissues of its host plants, species of legume shrubs, often of genus Psorothamnus, especially Emory's indigo bush or dyebush (Psorothamnus emoryi). It has no roots, leaves, or chlorophyll, obtaining its water and nutrients from the host.

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