TIL that plants can be albino, too. They have no chloroplasts and produce no chlorophyll of their own, so they either die early, or adapt to become parasites of the plants closest to them, and steal nutrients from them. Like vampire plants. Crazy!

https://www.earth.com/news/albino-plants-without-chlorophyll/

#til #todayilearned

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g5509j/til_that_plants_can_be_albino_too_they_have_no/

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