#ghostwort — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ghostwort, aggregated by home.social.
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Hunting the #ghostwort – a bryological Halloween tale
https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/39486"It’s a myco-heterotroph, which means that it can’t make its own food, and instead obtains it from #fungi. In fact, Aneura mirabilis is an epiparasite – it’s #parasitic on an organism that’s itself a #parasite! The #ghostwort gets its food from a #fungus called Tulasnella. This fungus in turn forms an ectomycorrhizal association with the roots of nearby #trees, usually birch"
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Hunting the #ghostwort – a bryological Halloween tale
https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/39486"It’s a myco-heterotroph, which means that it can’t make its own food, and instead obtains it from #fungi. In fact, Aneura mirabilis is an epiparasite – it’s #parasitic on an organism that’s itself a #parasite! The #ghostwort gets its food from a #fungus called Tulasnella. This fungus in turn forms an ectomycorrhizal association with the roots of nearby #trees, usually birch"