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Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Toothwort in the Long Plantation, Kingswood, Surrey on 22rd March 2014

 Toothwort is a parasitic plant -- on hazel in this location.  It has no leaves or chlorophyll.
 You only see it when flowers.  The rest of the year its fleshy shoots are below ground feeding on the hazel roots.


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