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Sagehen's Mycorrhizal Cheaters

Flipping the usual script, where mycorrhizal fungi siphon sugar from plant roots, some plants get all or part of their food from parasitism upon those fungi (who probably got it from trees), rather than from photosynthesis.

The Pyrola group is one of a select few that can live both ...more ↓

Snowplant 1
Sarcodes sanguinea
fragrant bedstraw 2
Galium triflorum
woodland pinedrops 3
Pterospora andromedea
white-veined wintergreen 4
Pyrola picta
Little Prince's Pine 5
Chimaphila menziesii
catchweed bedstraw 6
Galium aparine
sugarstick 7
Allotropa virgata
white-veined wintergreen 4
Pyrola picta
Gray's bedstraw 8
Galium grayanum
Mexican bedstraw 9
Galium mexicanum
low mountain bedstraw 10
Galium bifolium
bog wintergreen 11
Pyrola asarifolia
one-sided wintergreen 12
Orthilia secunda
three-petal bedstraw 13
Galium trifidum

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