Plants Without Chlorophyll: It’s Easy Being Green, But Stealing is Even Easier

by Katie Grzesiak

Featured images, left to right:  pinesap, ghost plant, spotted coralroot orchid.  Photos:  Katie Grzesiak Plants are Plants Plants make their food with energy from the sun; that’s what is often used to define them as plants.  If I want to throw my degrees around, I call them “photoautotrophs,” from the Greek for “light,” “self,” and “feed.”  Photosynthesis!  It’s super neat, …