The mysterious plant, Thismia kobensis, was rediscovered growing a few inches from a forest floor in Japan.
Scientists in Japan have rediscovered an extremely rare species of parasitic"fairy lantern" that was presumed to be extinct.
First documented in 1992 in Kobe, Japan, the plant was presumed extinct when its habitat was destroyed by the building of an industrial complex. Now, three decades later, on a forest trail about 19 miles from Kobe, scientists have found the waxy, fang-shaped petals of the rare plant once more. They described the discovery Feb. 27 in the journal Phytotaxa.
—Plant leaves spark with electricity during thunderstorms — and that could be altering our air quality in unpredictable ways "Because most mycoheterotrophic plants obtain their carbon indirectly from photosynthetic plants via shared mycorrhizal [fungal and plant] networks, they are highly dependent on the activities of both the fungi and trees that sustain them," the researchers wrote in the study."Consequently, they are particularly sensitive to environmental disturbances, often rendering them both rare and endangered.
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