Monotropa uniflora: how a plant conned fungi
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4 min readMay 22, 2019
Plants are great producers — they’re the source of food for many of earth’s animals, insects and microbes. As autotrophic, primary producers, plants are rooted to the base of the food chain as firmly as they’re rooted to the ground. A famous food chain we learned in schools taught us that plant produces its own food using sunlight, carbon dioxide and water. A rabbit feeds on the plant. A fox eats the rabbit. And…
