Custom Search

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Indian Pipe

While I was concentrating on the forest floor to photograph the orchids pictured here recently I also noticed another favorite plant that doesn't mind the darkness beneath the big trees near Matheson Lake. This is an emerging clump of Indian Pipe, a fascinating plant that, like the orchids, has no chlorophyll and gets it nourishment from its relationship with a fungus.

3 comments:

JoJo said...

They kinda look like fungus.

Stephanie said...

I don't think I have seen this one before.

William Kendall said...

I can't recall ever seeing this myself.