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May 24, 2015
White Woodland Privilege
An 'albino' redwood is a redwood tree which is unable to produce chlorophyll, and so has white needles instead of the normal green. In order to survive it must join its roots to the roots of a normal redwood, usually the parent tree from whose base it has sprouted, from which it obtains nutrition as a parasite.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 24, 2015 11:47 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Since it's a parasite it should be called a bluewood.
It'll come to ya.
Posted by: ghostsniper at May 25, 2015 10:30 AM