Plant discovered that neither photosynthesizes nor blooms

Junglekeeper · Oct 14, 2016

Plant discovered that neither photosynthesizes nor blooms

A new species of plant has been discovered on the subtropical Japanese island of Kuroshima (located off the southern coast of Kyushu in Kagoshima prefecture) and named it Gastrodia kuroshimensis. The new flowering plant species is a very rare event as the flora of this region have been thoroughly investigated. However, G. kuroshimensis was a particularly special discovery because it is both completely mycoheterophic, deriving its nutrition not from photosynthesis but from host fungi, and completely cleistogamous, producing flowers that never bloom.
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Plant discovered that neither photosynthesizes nor blooms

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