Natural History Wanderings

CNET reports

Fairy lanterns laugh in the face of common knowledge about plants. They lack green leaves and don’t use photosynthesis. About 90 species of fairy lanterns are known of. One in particular, Thismia kobensis, was thought to be extinct but this “ethereal” plant has been rediscovered after three decades.

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