It's possible that microbes are somehow taking genetic material from Arrayon and putting it into Bokela so that Bokela can make the same kinds of leaves. So I'm literally talking here about taking the genes from one plant and putting them in another through microbes, which is totally wild. And what's cool is that if this microbe idea turns out to be true, it means that plants might look like they do because of the bugs on them. This mimicry plant might actually reveal a lot about kind of just like what's happening under the hood in the world of plants.
In the temperate rainforests of Chile, there is a vine that can shapeshift to copy the look of other plants. But how? Can it... see them? Or is something weirder happening?
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