Cephalanthera damasonium

White helleborine

Image number 5746

Photographed Oxfordshire, 20 May 2016

This species is known to obtain carbon and nitrogen from trees via ectomycorrhizal fungi, even though it normally has both leaves and chlorophyll. 

A few specimens are known that do not have any chlorophyll, this is one of them.

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