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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MML@sh.itjust.works 12 hours agoThere’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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Mycoheterotrophs! Love them, such bizarre little plants
MML@sh.itjust.works 11 hours 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.
sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah I wouldn’t try that in a million years, you need, like, an actual functioning ecosystem for them to flourish
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 hours 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.