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> all plants have in common There are more things in heaven and earth than dreamed of by your botany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora https://

• DonHopkins 3y ago
  Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't: The Tiniest Seed in the Blueberry Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54wpdvZNve4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54wpdvZNve4 >Seeds of Monotropa uniflora - a plant that parasitizes fungi - are incredibly tiny. And they can afford to be, because all they need to grow is to be able to germinate on a mycelial thread of the mycorrhizal fungus that they parasitize. 8:22> "Mycoheterotrophic Lifestyles of the Lewd and Depraved" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy >Myco-heterotrophy (from Greek μύκης mykes, "fungus", ἕτερος heteros, "another", "different" and τροφή trophe, "nutrition") 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-heterotrophs are sometimes informally referred to as "mycorrhizal cheaters". This relationship is sometimes referred to as mycotrophy, though this term is also used for plants that engage in mutualistic mycorrhizal relationships.