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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: bentley30-06 on August 16, 2011, 11:31:29 PM

Title: Ghost Plant
Post by: bentley30-06 on August 16, 2011, 11:31:29 PM: I was out picking mushrooms today and stumbled across a ghost plant and I am enticed by the alien-like characteristics...
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Post by: bentley30-06 on August 16, 2011, 11:32:18 PM: 2
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Post by: Kola16 on August 16, 2011, 11:40:00 PM: Looks cool. Never seen one before. Were you on the east side or the west?
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Post by: sebek556 on August 16, 2011, 11:59:55 PM: that is a cool looking plant
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Post by: NW-GSP on August 17, 2011, 02:42:38 PM: I saw a couple of the same plant last week on the wet side
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Post by: jackelope on August 17, 2011, 02:54:00 PM: I saw one also over the weekend, barely on the west side.
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Post by: ouchfoss on August 17, 2011, 03:59:47 PM: Those are called Indian pipe. Kinda an oddball plant in nature because they dont get their nutrients from the sun. They are white cause they lack chlorophyll to absorb sunlight so they actually feed off the roots of trees using fungus. I always seem to find a few of them mushroom picking every year. ALways thought about maybe digging one up and plant it by the spruce tree in my yard. :dunno:
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Post by: bentley30-06 on August 17, 2011, 05:22:33 PM: ya west side near fungus spores and what not...but I guess they are used for many remedies and will actually begin to dissolve in your hand if you pick them. I dont think that I would use them for anything however...