Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it

ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• juliebean@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  it’s a plant, but rather than photosynthesizing, it is what’s called a mycoheterotroph, which means it gets its nutrients by siphoning stuff from fungal networks in the soil, so, sorta?

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• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is a plant, just of a sort that has turned to parasitism I suppose for its nutrients. I believe they are part of a larger family of plants named saprophytes.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The other person is correct in calling it a mycohrtetotroh, sporophyte implies it lives of decaying plant matter which it doesn’t. Plants like these are interesting, no chlorophyll, what your seeing is only the flower and stem, the leaves are highly vestigial, there’s no main stem

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• crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ghost Pipe is a fungi.

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