Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Indian pipe


Monotropa uniflora, or Indian pipe. The lack of chlorophyll gives Indian pipe its ghostly white appearance. It depends on fungi in the soil around it for nutrition. This is in Purdue's Hort Park Woods (Stewart's Woods), July 29, 2009.

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