These ghostly white plants may look like mushrooms, but they're actually regarded as flowering plants. They lack chlorophyll to photosynthesize, so they extract nutrients from fungi that, in turn, have got their nutrients from trees, making them parasitic.
Since they do not need sunlight to make food, they can grow in dark forest environments, but are indirectly getting the benefits of sunlight through their mycoheterotrophic relationship!
I love these alien looking plants!
2 comments:
Interesting
They certainly are.
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