ODD PLANTS
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WEIRD BUT PERFECTLY NATURAL! • BY VALÉRIE LEVÉE
Water, light, CO2, minerals—that’s essentially all a plant needs to grow. As these resources are found in ecosystems in varying amounts, plants have to capture as much of them as they can and use them efficiently. But that’s not the whole story: they also have to reproduce. And for that, they sometimes need pollinators, which they try to attract in all kinds of ways.
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↓ Due to their shapes and colors, lithops are strange plants.
