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Aneura mirabilis
Ghostwort (Aneura mirabilis) is a small, white, non-photosynthetic liverwort that lives underground and gets its nutrients from fungi in its tissues. It is a wild bog species found in northern Europe, not a plant that is grown in gardens or indoors.
Aneura mirabilis is a parasitic species of liverwort in the family Aneuraceae. It was first described in 1933, as Cryptothallus mirabilis. Plants of this species are white as a result of lacking chlorophyll, and their plastids do not differentiate into chloroplasts.
Plants have been found in locations across northern Europe, and once in Greenland. They grow in bogs and are typically found underneath peat moss or other dense moss growth near birch trees.
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