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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Mycelium Mycorrizhae: a fungus that grows in association with the roots of a plant in a symbiotic or mildly pathogenic relationship. Mycoheterotroph: A plant that is completely reliant on fungus for all of its nutrition. Sexual deception: A trick used by numerous orchid species of looking and/or smelling like female insects in order to draw male insects to their flowers (for pollination) Food deception: Rather than offering pollinators real food rewards (such as nectar or pollen), some orchids merely mimic the looks and smells of other, nearby flowers that offer such rewards. Pollinia: In most flowering plants, pollen is a powdery substance made up of tons of individual pollen grains. But orchids pack their grains into a couple of sticky sacks (pollinia) instead. Epiphyte: A plant that grows harmlessly upon another plant. Lots of tropical orchids are epiphytes Lithophyte: A plant that grows on rocks MinuteEarth is produced