| mycorrhizal cheaters |
[Jul. 18th, 2008|21:22] |
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| indian pipe (monotropa uniflora). once upon a time they used to be called saprophytes, but now it's myco-heterotrophs. they're non-photosynthetic plants which get their food from fungi whose mycelium they parasitize. |
walklog:
7-18 nanaimo river regional park, 2.9 km, 1:09. biggest patch of indian pipe i've ever seen, but it's so dark in that part of the forest that i didn't get a better picture (like in profile so one can see why it got its name) without a tripod. |
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