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Then the following year the parent plant re-emerges from its underground tuber surrounded by tiny replicas of itself.
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The actual Dactylanthus plant is a warty underground tuber that can grow to the size of a large basketball.
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Extracts are made from the underground tubers, which look like sweet potatoes.
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Tilling only encourages it by breaking up underground tubers, each of which produces more plants.
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The workers dig extensive networks of tunnels in search of underground tubers to feed the colony.
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A likely answer is that Oreopithecus had specialised by eating energy-rich underground tubers and corms, or even aquatic vegetation, says Nelson.