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Monotropa uniflora - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monotropa uniflora , also known as the Ghost Plant , Indian Pipe , or Corpse Plant is a herbaceous perennial plant, formerly classified in the family Monotropaceae, but now included within th...
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The translucent, flowering plant known as the Indian Pipe is a perennial that relies on small, wood-rotting fungi for nutrients that enable its growth. ... A flowering plant like the Indian Pipe is called an angiosperm, and it is of the type where the seeds are enclosed in a fruit. The flower of the Indian Pipe turns...
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Indian pipe, like its relative pinesap, has no chlorophyll, so it cannot obtain energy from sunlight. Instead, it gets nutrients from organic matter in the soil. ... Connecticut Botanical Society ... next white flower ; next in indian-pipe family...
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Yarrow, Queen Anne's Lace and Indian Pipe ... Indian pipe, ghost plant, is a remarkable botanical curiosity as well as a powerful nervine. It is a mysterious, underground except when flowering, perennial common boreal non-photosynthetic flowering epiparasite.
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This white apparition has appropriately been called ghost flower, corpse plant, or more commonly, Indian pipe. Indian pipe is descriptive of the shape of the plant with its flower curved downward so that it faces the ground.
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Indian Pipe or Corpse Plant (Monotropa uniflora) ... Example of a saprophyte, a flowering plant without chlorophyll ~ lives off decaying organic matter in soil ... Photographs for ecology, evolution, & behavior courses @ Villanova University...
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