A pale plant’s food supplySourced
No photosynthesis, but not a mushroom
Monotropa uniflora, known as ghost pipe, is a pale flowering plant without chlorophyll. It obtains nutrients through fungi that connect to photosynthesizing trees.
An unseen underground relationship supports the flowers.
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