Indian Pipe
by Debbie Oppermann
Title
Indian Pipe
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Debbie Oppermann
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Photograph - Photography
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"Indian Pipe" by Debbie Oppermann. I was super thrilled to spot these delicately beautiful Ghost Pipes in the forest in Guelph Ontario Canada as they are somewhat rare. Indian Pipes are uniquely beautiful plants with ghost-white flowers.It usually grows in the woods, but sometimes in mossy places. The plant is entirely white, and each stem is tipped by a single flower.The Indian pipe is a flowering plant, but it isn't green, so how does it get its food? It has short, stubby roots that contain fungi and the fungi extend in a web-like way through dead rotting leaves and connect up to the roots of conifers. The conifers provide sugar, which the fungi carry to the Indian Pipe plant. So it's really a parasite, but on fungi.
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