Talk:Striga (plant)

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I suspect this is a C&P from this website: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/ipc/weedinfo/striga.htm Dina 18:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] stolen

i found this same info word by word, on a different website. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.154.142.164 (talk • contribs) 21:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC).

Thanks to both of you for the heads up. I removed what I saw of the copyvio material, do you see any left? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Delldot (talk • contribs) 22:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Desmodium

Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, in testimony to Agriculture and Forestry Committee of Senate of Canada, 5 December 2006, said:

"Napier grass — that they can grow outside the borders of the corn, which actually attracts the corn borer. The corn borer likes the smell better than the corn, but it traps it; it has a sticky liquid. At the same time, they found another plant — a Desmodium plant — that can be grown between the corn. It is a very small nitrogen-fixing plant that has a smell that repels the corn borer. At the same time, the Striga weed also does not like it."

Can somebody who knows more about it than me clarify if she meant Desmodium or Napier grass? Trekphiler 08:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number of species

Just a short note as I'm currently working on the German article for this genus: The paper cited for the numbers of species says in the abstract that there are 28 species in Africa. The genus description of the Flora Zambesiaca speaks of "some 40 species", see [1]. So I guess the number of species mentioned here is wrong. --Carstor (talk) 20:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)