As he traced it to the forest floor, he noticed this other plant was a species of vine called Boquila trifoliolata. This took Gianoli by surprise. Commonly, the leaves of B. trifoliolata are ...

It’s called Boquila trifoliolata, and it lives in the temperate rain forests of Chile and Argentina. It does what most vines do—it crawls across the forest floor, spirals up, and hangs onto ...

The vine Boquila trifoliolata can be found climbing up other plants in temperate rain forests of Chile and Argentina. The vine produces clusters of three leaflets, but the researchers noticed that ...

Images of the twining vine B. trifoliolata cohabiting with woody species in the temperate rainforest of southern Chile, where leaf mimicry in terms of size, color and/or shape is evident. The white ...

The Boquila trifoliolata vine, which is found in the rainforests of Chile and Argentina, has the remarkable ability to disguise itself by shapeshifting to mimic its surroundings. As it climbs ...

trifoliolata’s mimicry. The one thing everyone agrees on ... Yamashita says he wasn’t studying Boquila specifically before then, but was researching plant intelligence, so plant vision was right up ...

He eventually realised that the thin stems actually belonged to a Boquila vine, whose leaves were exactly the same as the shrub’s. He walked on and found Boquila entwined around many different ...

For instance, as reported in 2014 in Current Biology, the climbing wood vine Boquila trifoliolata can modify its leaves to mimic the colors and shapes of its host plant. Although the evidence for ...

Schlanger vividly outlines how Peruvian botanist Ernesto Gianoli, for instance, has found that the vine Boquila trifoliolata can change the shape of its leaves to mimic those of neighbouring ...