The mysterious Pilostyles is a plant within a plant
- Written by Steve Wylie, Molecular virology, virus ecology and evolution, metagenomics, symbiosis, Murdoch University
Pilostyles are only visible when their fruit and flowers erupt out of their host plants. The Conversation/Wikipedia
In 1946, forestry officer Charles Hamilton found something unusual on a shrubby native pea plant growing in Mundaring, near Perth. The pea had strange knobs on its stems, which looked like odd (and very un-pea-like) flowers.
When he...
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