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In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted -- and 27 years later, proved -- that opossums are key to its pollination. The findings are published in the Ecological Society of America's journal Ecology. The plant Scybalium fungiforme, a little-known fungus-like species of the family Balanophoraceae, has…

A violet-capped Woodnymph hummingbird visits the inflorescence. Credit: Felipe Amorim. In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted—and 27 years later, proved—that opossums are key to its pollination. The findings are published in the Ecological Society of America's journal Ecology. The plant Scybalium fungiforme, a little-known fungus-like…