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Bird's nest orchid flower {Neottia nidus-avis} flowering in coniferous woodland. The plant lacks chlorophyll and obtains nutrients from fungal hypae which it parasitises. Nordtirol, Tirol, Austrian Alps, Austria, 1500 metres altitude, July.
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