Monotropa uniflora
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Monotropa uniflora, also known as the American Indian ghost pipe plant, is a herbaceous, parasitic, non-photosynthesizing, perennial flowering plant native to North America, Latin America, and East As
Monotropa uniflora in Penwood State Park 3, 2009 07 03
The alternate leaves
Dissected flower
Each of ten anthers open via two curving slits.
Myco-heterotrophy
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Myco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A m
Monotropa uniflora
…plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll. Instead of generating food using the energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, and more specifically a mycoheterotroph. Its hosts are in the Russulaceae family. Most fungi are mycorrhizal, meaning that they grow symbiotically in association with tree roots. Through the…
Monotropa uniflora, an obligate myco-heterotroph known to parasitize fungi belonging to the Russulaceae.
Myco-heterotrophic roots of Monotropa uniflora with Russula brevipes mycelium