Plants and their ways in South Africa . ng Plants .) they obtain from the host and the carbon dioxide which theycan take from the air. These are called partial which derive all their nourishment from their host arecalled total parasites. Some plants which come up from the ground are parasiticon the roots of other plants. The beautiful pink-and-whiteand crimson Harveya, the flaming Hyobaiiche^ and Sarcophyte^and curious Hydnora are root parasites. The leaves are re-duced to mere scales. 7* 100 Plants and their Ways in South Africa A saprophyte is a plant which lives on dead or d
Plants and their ways in South Africa . ng Plants .) they obtain from the host and the carbon dioxide which theycan take from the air. These are called partial which derive all their nourishment from their host arecalled total parasites. Some plants which come up from the ground are parasiticon the roots of other plants. The beautiful pink-and-whiteand crimson Harveya, the flaming Hyobaiiche^ and Sarcophyte^and curious Hydnora are root parasites. The leaves are re-duced to mere scales. 7* 100 Plants and their Ways in South Africa A saprophyte is a plant which lives on dead or decaying matter. Mushrooms, yeastplants, the mould on breadand cheese, and somebacteria are examples. Sa-prophytes are very usefulmembers of plant change decayingvegetable matter into whole-some food. When insects or Fig. 84.—A piece of a branchof an apple tree cut throughlengthwise, into which ayoung mistletoe-plant hasdriven its sucking roots (re-duced). (From Thom^ andBennetts Structural andPhysiological Botany .).
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