What! That’s news?? Surely everybody knows that many plants are pollinated by bees? Hopefully, yes, but this item is not about that well-known plant-insect association. OK, but does it feature mammoths? No, but it does...
Tag - elephant
Nigel Chaffey
From cocks and hens * to cockroaches (and elephants…)
Yasuhiro Uehara and Naoto Sugiura describe a new mutualistic relationship between a cockroach and Monotropastrum humile (Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 185: 113–118, 2017; ). [M. humile is a mycoheterotrophic...
Plants to the rescue of animals…
From tusks to teeth, plants can step in where animals break down.
