Saprophytes
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Saprophytes may refer to
- Saprotroph, a term used for organisms which obtain nutrients from dead organic matter (this term commonly applies to fungi)
- Plants more accurately called myco-heterotrophMyco-heterotrophyMyco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A myco-heterotroph is the parasitic plant partner in this relationship...
s because they actually parasitize fungi, rather than dead organic matter directly.