Plantwatch: An extraordinary orchid that lives and flowers underground
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Botanist trying to conserve highly vulnerable rhizanthella that survives by feeding on nutrients from a fungus Rhizanthella is an extraordinary orchid that lives its entire life underground. It flowers below ground, has no leaves and survives by feeding on nutrients from a fungus that gets its food from the soil and by connecting with roots […]