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CareHare@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• lemmyng@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s from plants that get their air mostly from the shade and sunsets, so obviously they’d be less yellow and more dark and red.

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  • CareHare@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know this is a joke, but to be fair: the scientific consensus (now) is that the purple pigmentation acts as a sort of sunscreen against too much sunlight.

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    • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So they’re like black plants

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    they are more dark green if they a understory plant, or a shaded plant. there of course plants that have no chlorophyll whatsoever. 2 types, one is mostly albino plants where they lose all thier chlorophyll, the other is mycoheterotrophic plants(either partial or fully). ever seen a albino redwood, apparently it lives off being attached to the roots of the parent plant where it came from or from nearby trees.

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• MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s also an extremely tiny percent of plants that are entirely white, they don’t get their energy through photosynthesis but instead a parasitic relationship of fungi and other plants.

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  • sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mycoheterotrophs! Love them, such bizarre little plants

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    • MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was so disappointed when I learned how hard (I mean I haven’t actually tried it) to culture them, but it makes sense given how they occur.

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      • sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah I wouldn’t try that in a million years, you need, like, an actual functioning ecosystem for them to flourish

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      partial and fully mycoheterotrophic orchids are fascinating. at least 1 kind is native to North america with many species, gastrodia seems to be the most species rich MH. they keep finding new thismia species(1 supposedly existed in america a century ago, but became extinct. the rest lives in South east asia, china, india, and australia area.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Albino plants are a thing, but they usually are attached to the main plant where they came from. albino redwoods is an example. fully parasitic plants usually dont have leaves or have a small nonfunctional ones. some parasitic plants is exist as filaments inside a host(no stem no, leaves whatsoever)(rafflesia, pilostyles)

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• isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As is purple rain.

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