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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