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News: Missouri Botanist Rediscovers Strange Parasitic Plant

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ST. LOUIS — A scientist with the Missouri Botanical Garden has rediscovered and identified a rare parasitic plant that hasn't been seen by botanists in more than 20 years. A single specimen of the plant was found in Mexico in 1985, but the plant wasn't seen again until St. Louis botanist George Yatskievych and a colleague found it in a pine oak forest in Mexico's mountains. The plant, which he is identifying and naming for the first time, is not a classic beauty.
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