Ghost plant

Indian Pipe in Alberta (Edibility and Identification)

While on vacation at the cottage, I spent a lot of time (too much time), photographing various mushrooms and fungi. I thought this little gem was some king of fungus, but I was wrong. Click on the pics to enlarge It's a herbaceous perennial plant (Monotropa uniflora), in the Ericaceae family, AKA - Indian Pipe, Ice Plant, Fairy Smoke, Ghost Flower, Corpse Plant, Ghost Pipe, Dutchman's Pipe, Eyebright, Convulsion Weed, and Fit Root. This is one of about 3000 species of non-photosynthetic…

While on vacation at the cottage, I spent a lot of time (too much time), photographing various mushrooms and fungi. I thought this little gem was some king of fungus, but I was wrong. Click on the pics to enlarge It's a herbaceous perennial plant (Monotropa uniflora), in the Ericaceae family, AKA - Indian Pipe, Ice Plant, Fairy Smoke, Ghost Flower, Corpse Plant, Ghost Pipe, Dutchman's Pipe, Eyebright, Convulsion Weed, and Fit Root. This is one of about 3000 species of non-photosynthetic…

Indian Pipe (aka Ghost Plant and Corpse Plant) (Monotropa uniflora) is a herbaceous plant that occurs across most of North America and even in Asia. Although widespread, it is generally scarce or …

This is the red color phase of Pinesap (Monotropa hypopytis). There is also a less-hairy, earlier-blooming yellow variant that is sometimes split off as a separate species. Pinesap lacks chlorophyll, and like other members of its family obtains nutrients via a myco-heterotrophic relationship with the mycelia of certain fungi, particularly Tricholoma species. There is evidence that this relationship is even more intricate, since the fungal partner typically has a mycorrhizal interaction with…

“ Parasitic plant, Cistanche tubulosa (desert hyacinth, dhanoon, Tartuth) in bloom. Harrarah, Qatar ”

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