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Differentiate between parasitic and saprophytic plants with examples.

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A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirement from another living plant.

Answer:An organism, especially a fungus or bacterium, that grows on and derives its nourishment from dead or decaying organic matter. Example: parasitic plants: viscous album, cuscuta campestris, Orobanche ramosa etc . Example: Mushrooms and moulds, Indian pipe, Corallorhiza orchids, and Mycorrhizal fungi etc.

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