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Kobe University

251210-Suetsugu-Agamospermy-Title

Caption

Balanophora species are parasitic plants that live underground and emerge above ground only during the flowering season — and some species even reproduce exclusively asexually. This collage shows species studied to establish how the plants of that group relate to each other, how they modified their plastids and how their reproduction fits into their ecology.

Credit

Kobe University

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