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Balanophora sp
parasitic flowering plant, not sure of the species
amazon, flooded forest
I spotted a lot of clumps of these in Zacambu reserve. The area is seasonally flooded and I was surprised to see so much of this plant. In contrast, other forests I visited which were high ground and never flooded, hardly contained any Balanophora.
Spotted on Dec 5, 2012
Submitted on Jul 28, 2013
2 Comments
I know, you would think that right? I did too and I think I might have miscategorized some of my previous spottings of this but I looked it up and the Balanophoraceae family belongs to the Plantae kingdom. It's actually a flowering parasitic plant and not a fungi.
hey dan, woudn't you wanna move this to fungi?