bird's-nest orchid

bird's-nest orchid

plant
      (Neottia nidus-avis), European plant of the family Orchidaceae that lacks chlorophyll and obtains its food from decaying organic material with the help of mycorrhizae. Its numerous pale brown flowers are borne on a leafless spike. The short, underground stem and the mass of roots that resembles a bird's nest store food until about the ninth year, when the plant first blooms.

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