A photo with two non-photosynthetic parasitic unrelated plants in the same shot. Ghost pipe on the left, beechdrops on the right.

Two plant parasites in one! #plantsky #parasiticplants #ghostpipe #beechdrops

Beechdrops budding.

Beechdrops, a non-photosynthetic parasitic plant with only one host: American beech. Finding just one of these alive this year was a major struggle. The swamp and seemingly every forest for miles around is completely plagued with beech leaf disease. #beechdrops #envirosky #nativeplants

Ink drawing of beechdrops with the scientific name to the right.

Beechdrops (Epifagus virginiana)
Ink on sketchbook paper.

#inksketch #wildflowers  
#beechdrops #parasiticplant
#botanicalart

Cannibal plants: intraspecific autoparasitism among host-specific holoparasites Intraspecific autoparasitism, the phenomenon in which a parasite serves as the host for another individual of the same species, is a well described interaction among hemi-parasitic flowering plants. H...

📜 Cannibal plants: intraspecific autoparasitism among host-specific holoparasites

🧑‍🔬 Luiza Teixeira-Costa

📔 Botany

🔗 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

#️⃣ (Feeds): #PlantScience #ParasiticPlants #Beechdrops #Epifagus #Holoparasites #Orobanchaceae