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Old 11-20-2015, 09:04 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Default Re: Musa ingens in West Papua

The fungus symbiosis is common with a lot of plants. There are wild terrestrial Orchids in my back yard that have little, or no chlorophyll and have to be infected by fungus as a seed to germinate and survive. They only send up above ground growth to flower, being underground the rest of the time.
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