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TIL Also plants can be albino’s. However, plants need the chlorophyll (which makes them green) to survive, making albino plants extremely rare. Albino sequoia’s can live as “parasite trees” by tapping other trees’ roots, enabling it to survive without chlorophyll. About 230 are known to exist.

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