New Zealand Plants

11009-55110 Fairy lantern (Thismia rodwayi) a peculiar, chlorophyll devoid plant. Vegatatively reduced and leafless. The plant exists solely as white, root-like rhizomes which bear small reddish flowers in early summer. It gains nutrition through association with soil fungi. It is difficult to find and restricted to the middle and upper forests and shrublands of the North Island. Flowers are tiny, 20 mm long, solitary, terminal red, red-orange, or (rarely, as seen here) white with orange striping - these were in rimu litter. Ohakune *

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11009-55110 Fairy lantern (Thismia rodwayi) a peculiar, chlorophyll devoid plant. Vegatatively reduced and leafless. The plant exists solely as white, root-like rhizomes which bear small reddish flowers in early summer. It gains nutrition through association with soil fungi. It is difficult to find and restricted to the middle and upper forests and shrublands of the North Island. Flowers are tiny, 20 mm long, solitary, terminal red, red-orange, or (rarely, as seen here) white with orange striping - these were in rimu litter. Ohakune *

Fairy lantern Sacrosiphon Bagnisia hilli flowering flower