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A Ghost Flower Hides in the Forest! 🌸👻

Scientists found a leaf‑less orchid that looks like a ghost flower in a faraway river valley 🌿.

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Leaf‑less orchid discovered in Arunachal Pradesh.

It lives without sunlight and uses fungi for food.

Only five flowers were found at about 1 meter height.

Scientists named it Gastrodia keyiensis, also called Ghost Flower.

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The plant has no leaves or green color, so it gets food from tiny fungi in the soil 🍄.

Only five flowers were seen, so it is very rare and hidden most of the time 🌼.

The flower is called “Oram Opuh”, which means Ghost Flower in the local language 👻.

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10 words

orchid

a special kind of flower that often grows in warm places

leafless

having no leaves

fungi

tiny organisms like mushrooms that live in soil

chlorophyll

the green part of plants that helps them make food from sunlight

holomycotrophy

getting food from fungi instead of sunlight

taxonomic

the way scientists name and classify living things

habitat

the natural home where a plant or animal lives

species

a group of living things that are similar and can have babies together

biodiversity

the many different kinds of plants and animals in an area

data deficient

not enough information to know how many there are

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