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Bird's-nest Orchid
Growing in deep leaf litter under a heavy canopy of Beech trees. In an area where little light penetrates.
Note no green leaves. The roost of the plant are densely matted and look like an untidy birds nest. |
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| Bird's-nest Orchid Saprophyte, without green chlorophyll but nourishes itself on decomposing leaf humus in partnership with a fungus whose filaments are attached to its roots and spread out through the humus. Note not parasitic as Broomrape. |
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