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THERE is a plant whose flowers bloom almost underground – and that might be how it lures in its favourite pollinators, mushroom-eating flies.
The cast-iron plant ( ) has drab flowers that are often buried in leaf litter. Biologists have long been puzzled about how these subterranean flowers are pollinated. , have all been named as possible candidates.
To find out, at Kobe University and at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute in Tsukuba studied wild cast-iron plants. “No one had conducted…
