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Monotropa uniflora
Indian Pipe
MONOTROPACEAE

Indian Pipe photo by Ed UtzThis is an unusual, waxy, translucent, white plant devoid of all chlorophyll with leaves that are basically scales. It is not a mushroom, but a flowering plant, albeit an unusual one. Because it lacks chlorophyll it must get its nourishment from a fungal relationship with roots.

Because of the way it gets nourishment, it lives in deciduous woods and bogs throughout North America. It grows to a height of three to nine inches and blooms from June through September.

Indian Pipe photo by Ed Utz

 

 

 

 

 

 

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