#mycoheterotrophy — Public Fediverse posts

🍄 NEW: Botanists in #Thailand’s #ThongPhaPhum National Park found a new species, 'Thismia daemona', growing in seasonal #mountain forest at roughly 950 meters.

The nearly black #flower has three horn-like appendages and reddish-orange patches. Lacking #chlorophyll, it draws #carbon from #soil #fungi rather than sunlight, a strategy called #mycoheterotrophy.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discovered-a-bizarre-devil-flower-that-doesnt-need-sunlight

#plants #botany #newspecies #photosynthesis #forests #nature #science #biology #conservation #discovery

Myco-heterotrophy (Botany 🌱)

Myco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A myco-heterotroph is the parasitic plant partner in this relationship. Myco-heterotrophy is considered a kind of cheating relationship and myco-he...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy

#MycoHeterotrophy #Botany #Ecology #Mycology #Symbiosis #ParasiticPlants

These ghost flowers thrive without photosynthesis
https://www.science.org/content/article/these-ghost-flowers-thrive-without-photosynthesis-one-scientist-learning-how

"More than 33,000 species—including certain clubmosses, ferns, liverworts & all orchids—are initially mycoheterotrophic during early development. About 600 #plants, nearly half of which are #orchids, fully abandoned photosynthesis and depend on #fungi throughout their lives... #Mycoheterotrophy evolved independently more than 40 times. The strategy could be an adaption to surviving in dense forests where light is scarce"

@danielthedaring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy

#mycoheterotrophy

Say it with me now: mycoheterotroph!!!

I love them.

Striped Coralroot 🥰

#NativePlants #orchids #mycoheterotrophy #symbiosis

#Orchid's #nutrient theft from f#ungi sheds light on #photosynthesis-#parasitism continuum.

#kleptophagy #kleptoparasitism #mycoheterotrophy #mycorrhizae

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-orchid-nutrient-theft-fungi-photosynthesis.html

#Mycoheterotrophic #plants as a key to the '#WoodWideWeb' https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mycoheterotrophic-key-wood-wide-web.html

#Mycoheterotrophy in the wood-wide web https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-024-01677-0

"They have no green leaves and therefore cannot photosynthesize, which is why they feed entirely at the expense of mycorrhizal #fungi. These fungal partners simultaneously enter into a second partnership with forest trees and can mediate carbon exchange between the plants."

Myco-heterotrophy (Botany 🌱)

Myco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A myco-heterotroph is the parasitic plant partner in this relationship. Myco-heterotrophy is considered a kind of cheating relationship and myco-he...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy

#MycoHeterotrophy #Botany #Ecology #Mycology #Symbiosis #ParasiticPlants