Earlier this week, scientists announced a new species of one of these "mycoheterotrophic" (translation: things that are not fungi that eat fungi to survive) plants. It's called Sciaphila sugimotoi—after a Mr. Takaomi Sugimoto who collected the samples used in the study—and it was spotted on Ishigaki Island in Japan. The researchers who described it in the journal Phytotaxa are specifically working on categorizing the mysterious mycoheterotrophic species of Japan: the species tend to be scrawny—it's not like you grow a bunch of lush green leaves when you're not photosynthesizing—and they rarely peak up above the ground. In this, these plants are very much like their moldy, mushroom-y prey. Even if a fungus pops some fruiting bodies (otherwise known as mushrooms) up over the surface, most of their bulk is made up of web-like fibers called mycelium that run through the dirt.