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Also known as "Chilean Rhubarb", Gunnera tinctoria has no relation to rhubarb, but is instead a species from Southern Chile and a member of a very odd lineage of flowering plant. It forms associations with nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in its stems to make up for the low availability of nutrients in the acidic, often water-logged habitats it grows in, like this bog in an Alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) forest. The order Gunnerales is sandwiched between the orders Buxales and Dilleniales, and cont