Indian-pipe

Indian-pipe

Indian-pipe Monotropa uniflora is a strange-looking colourless plant which may be found growing in the leaf litter in shaded woods. The waxy stems each have a nodding flower at the tip so the plants vaguely resemble tobacco pipes in shape. There are much-reduced scale-like leaves on the stems. The flowers appear in the summer and the plants blacken with age. [CH] {GW}