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Image of Cistanche salsa (C. A. Mey.) G. Beck

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Every time I see this flower, I'm amazed. It is a desert parasite that grows near chenopods shrublets, from which it gets nutrients. The young inflorescences miraculously break the desert dry soil and emerge.

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