Monotropa uniflora: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora
Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll.[9] Instead of generating food using the energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, and more specifically a mycoheterotroph. Its hosts are in the Russulaceae family.[9] Most fungi are mycorrhizal, meaning that they grow symbiotically in association with tree roots. Through the fungal web of mycorrhizae, the M. uniflora roots ultimately sap food from where the host fungi are connected to the photosynthetic trees.
Sick. Note that plants generally fall on a spectrum between food-generating from sunlight and parasitism through their roots; though generally, plants don’t just steal nutrients from fungi, they exchange nutrients with them, i.e. it’s a mutualistic relationship.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I get most of the tweet but not the “who would post this?” part.
Wouldn’t everybody post it?
Okokimup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No only super special nerds like me, I’m so quirky.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
the only difference is that non-nerds would likely include a sentence about how it’s the only cure for gout or something, for extra clicks
match@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
that part exists as clickbait
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The Jim Rose circus is a famous counter-culture performance. At the show I saw a woman put paint in her butt and farted it onto a canvas. There was also light bulb eating, further nudity, chainsaw juggling etc
In that context, it would be surprising to see them tweet about botany, making this kinda a joke tweet in itself that they would tweet this, which is why it has the commentary.