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Explore #FloraObscura: a series of short articles highlighting extraordinary plant biology 👇

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January 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Range‐wide sampling reveals cryptic lineages but largely conserved #mycorrhizal associations in the #Japanese fairy lantern Thismia kobensis

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#FloraObscura article by Suetsugu et al.

#biogeography #ThismiaKobensis

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Thismia kobensis. The plant truly lives up to its common name “fairy lantern,” with its mysterious form resembling a delicate piece of glassware glowing in the dim forest floor.
October 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Secrets within stems: The cryptic Apodanthes caseariae (Apodanthaceae), a rare neotropical #holoendoparasite

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#FloraObscura article by Ramírez-Ramírez et al.

#ant-plant #myrmecochory
Effects of Apodanthes caseariae and Pilostyles boyacensis on their hosts Casearia sylvestris and the legume Dalea cuatrecasasii
October 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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#Antbears and underground #melons: A highly specialized seed dispersal #mutualism mediated by scent

#FloraObscura article by Steven D. Johnson, Anka Eichhoff and Jeremy J. Midgley

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August 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Coexistence
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July 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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July 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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July 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This #orchid's unique structure helps it to pollinate itself

#FloraObscura by Kenji Suetsugu

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The diminutive orchid Stigmatodactylus sikokianus showing its finger-like appendage.
June 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🆕 Read our latest issue!

Plants, People, Planet 7:4

🌳 Editorial: #Trees, society and the path to resilient ecosystems
🌺 #FloraObscura: Novel pollination in #orchids
🌱 Investigating #PlantAwareness

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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET: Vol 7, No 4
<em>PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET</em> is an interdisciplinary plant journal of the New Phytologist Foundation publishing research at the interface of plants, society, and the planet.
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June 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Antbears and underground melons

Cucumis humifructus, closely related to cultivated #watermelons, buries its fruits deep underground. #Antbears find the fruits using scent, consume the pulp and the seeds germinate in their faeces.

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February 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Evolutionary and ecological insights from Cytinus: A plant within a plant

de Vega et al.

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Accepted species in the genus Cytinus and associated pollinators.
February 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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#FloraObscura is a series of short articles highlighting extraordinary plant biology in Plants, People, Planet:

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January 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM