This beautiful "fairy lantern” is an unusual plant species, previously thought extinct. It is symbiotic with trees. #botany #fungi #trees #thismia

https://www.treehugger.com/etherial-fairy-lantern-presumed-extinct-rediscovered-30-years-7152059

RT @PlantaMexicana
¡Descubren planta que no hace fotosíntesis en Colombia! 😱👽

#Thismia andicola Aguilar-Cano, S. Guzman-Guzman & Lopera-Toro (Thismiaceae). Se alimenta de las #micorrizas conformadas por hongos y raíces de otras plantas, por eso no hace fotosíntesis.

https://www.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.579.2.4

👇Check out Pfeiffer's 2014 description of Thismia americana here:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/331235

Published back when @IJPSJournal was called the Botanical Gazette.
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RT @RobertsonMorgan
Pouring one out for the lost #Thismia endemic to wetlands in the Chicago region, T. americana, 8,000 miles disjunct from its nearest relative in New Zealand. Diminutive mycoheterotroph, last seen in 1916. Has the sta…
https://twitter.com/RobertsonMorgan/status/1602015795172835328