Monotropa uniflora

The very first Indian pipes are starting to poke up through the forest floor. Lacking chlorophyll, this flowering plant cannot make its own food, but instead is parasitic and relies on getting en…

Definitely not a colorful resident of the forest floor, Indian Pipe nevertheless has a graceful appearance. It lacks chlorophyll and receives its nutrition via fungi attached to the roots of coniferous trees. 7-22-2012 update: This year, possibly due to the wet Spring we had, the Indian Pipe population really exploded.

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Ghost Plant The Ghost Plant is aptly named. Just imagine walking into a grouping of these in the middle of the night. This is a rare plant that people usually don't find anywhere. The plant does not get food from sunlight; strangely enough this plant feeds off a specific fungi which feed off of trees. Also called the Indian Pipe, this plant can rarely have a red coloration or streaking or sometimes has a pink hue to it as if it had recently eaten something that wandered by.

Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora)

Source: https://bit.ly/2tLXhPF Photographer: Magellan nh CC License: https://bit.ly/1E6HPMf Indian Pipes Facts Firstly, the unusual term of Indian Pipes serves as the common name for an extremely unusual species of plant. However, the distinctive plant also possesses several other common names. These include ghost plant and the corpse plant, among

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