Rare #orchid discovered at #Denver #BotanicGardens Chatfield Farms https://www.denverpost.com/2024/07/23/coralroot-orchid-discovered-denver-botanic-gardens-chatfield-farms/ #plants #fungi #orchids

A #StripedCoralrootOrchid has never been documented at #ChatfieldFarms, and the only other time a Jefferson County specimen was collected for a #herbarium was in 1905... Striped coralroots are unique because they don’t gather energy from the sun through #photosynthesis. Instead, they gather energy and nutrients through a #fungus on the roots of a host plant.