The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 14 hours agoThat's just sciencelemmy.worldimagemessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1695arrow-down110
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minus-squareMML@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoThere’s also an extremely tiny percent of plants that are entirely white, they don’t get their energy through photosynthesis but instead a parasitic relationship of fungi and other plants.
minus-squaresneekee_snek_17@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoMycoheterotrophs! Love them, such bizarre little plants
minus-squareMML@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agoI was so disappointed when I learned how hard (I mean I haven’t actually tried it) to culture them, but it makes sense given how they occur.
minus-squaresneekee_snek_17@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoYeah I wouldn’t try that in a million years, you need, like, an actual functioning ecosystem for them to flourish
There’s also an extremely tiny percent of plants that are entirely white, they don’t get their energy through photosynthesis but instead a parasitic relationship of fungi and other plants.
Mycoheterotrophs! Love them, such bizarre little plants
I was so disappointed when I learned how hard (I mean I haven’t actually tried it) to culture them, but it makes sense given how they occur.
Yeah I wouldn’t try that in a million years, you need, like, an actual functioning ecosystem for them to flourish