Have you ever seen an albino plant? Albino redwood trees are very rare, since they lack chlorophyll plants use to convert sunlight to nutrients. However, they can survive by sucking nutrients from neighbor trees. There are only 25 known specimens of albino redwoods alive, eight of which are in California. Read more about them at Discoblog. Link -Via: mental_floss, Via: Neatorama
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Albino, Vampiric Redwood Tree
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