Cassytha Pubescens

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Cassytha pubescens the Devil's Twine is a common twining plant of the Laurel family, in southern and eastern Australia.

A hemi-parasitic climber. An apparently leafless plant with warty stems when old.

Stems are between a half and one and a half millimetres in diameter.

Leaves are present in the form of tiny scales. The haustoria are 2 to 3 millimetres long. Tiny flowers form in summer. Being hairy, stalk-less or nearly so, yellow or white.

The fruit is round, ribbed and hairy, around 10 mm in diameter.

The fruit are sweet and mucousy to taste. In 1810, this species first appeared in scientific literature, in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, authored by the prolific Scottish botanist, Robert Brown.