Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoIt 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.
Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoIt 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.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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