The study revealed that when Oreorchis patens grows near decaying wood — where fungi are more abundant — the orchids extract significantly more nutrients from them. But rather than reducing ...

In a paper now published in The Plant Journal, the Kobe University team shows that when the orchid happens to grow close to rotten wood, it shifts its fungal symbionts to those that decompose the ...

The team found that when an orchid happens to grow close to rotten wood, it will shift its fungal symbionts into those that decompose wood. This change significantly increases the amount of ...