Don't miss the descriptions! But let me particularly draw your attention to:
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Pedantically, I think they now consider fungi closer to us than to plants.
I feel closer to them already.
Or maybe that's just the blood music.
Orobanche is a genus of parasitic plants that I'm somewhat interested in. They don't look particularly monstrous or even interesting. The monster was whoever gave them the common name: broomrape.
Every time I'm on the ground looking at a cute little cluster of these guys, an old lady comes along and asks what they are called.