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I remember seeing quite a bit of disturbing imagery when researching mycotrophic plants (which get nutrients from soil fungi and frequently don't have any cholr
by pierrec 7y ago
I remember seeing quite a bit of disturbing imagery when researching mycotrophic plants (which get nutrients from soil fungi and frequently don't have any cholrophyll). Maybe it's because they lack the usual green and leafy identifying features of plants. Some of them are bordering on the nightmarish.
Hydnora africana is mentioned in the article: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hydnora+africana&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=Hydnora+africana&tbm=isch
Monotropa uniflora: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49477-Monotropa-uniflora https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49477-Monotropa-uniflora
- pvaldes 7y agoHydnora had an obvious influence in Dune, IMAO
- pierrec 7y agoFor some reason, I just made the connection to the flowers of Minas Morgul, whose description I always loved. Now I can confirm, there are definitely some mycotrophic plants on the foothills of Mordor: "Wide flats lay on either bank, shadowy meads filled with pale white flowers. Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms in an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air."