A new plant species was discovered in Thailand by researchers. The plant was named Thismia daemona and is distinguished by having a peculiar appearance that was described as "diabolical".
Unlike most plants, Thismia daemona does not have chlorophyll, which means it does not perform photosynthesis. Instead, the plant extracts its nutrients from fungi that live underground.
This plant spends most of its life hidden under layers of dead leaves that fall from trees in the forests where it grows. This characteristic makes its discovery particularly rare and difficult.
The discovery of this species represents a rare example of a plant that depends entirely on other sources to obtain the nutrients necessary for its survival, instead of producing them through sunlight as conventional plants do.
