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Flora Flora · South of South Tyrol · 1,232 m

The free-loading orchid

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  • A conspicuously inconspicuous orchid
    A conspicuously inconspicuous orchid
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There’s a group of plants that aren’t green and don’t require photosynthesis, meaning that they have to sponge off other plants. To do this, they attach themselves to the roots of so-called host plants, extracting all the substances they need to grow and live. The most common local example of these parasitic plants is the orobanche or broom-rape plant. Even amongst the colourful orchids is one of these freeloaders, the bird's-nest orchid (neottia nidus-avis): conspicuously inconspicuous!

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46.293505, 11.295719
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46°17'36.6"N 11°17'44.6"E
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32T 676818 5129220
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