In a new kind of plant trickery, this yam fools birds with fake berries
Deception and intrigue are not limited to people or even animals. Plants, too, have evolved ways to fool their pollinators, their enemies and even the organisms that disperse their seeds. Now an international team has uncovered trickery in a climbing vine that fooled even them. The black-bulb yam (Dioscorea melanophyma) makes fake berries that help the…
