A striking white plant growing deep in the shady woods? Sounds like the start of a bewitching tale. And it is, because that unearthly color is just the beginning of the intriguing story of Monotropa ...

While meandering around my backyard this past weekend, I spotted a striking plant which I had never seen before. At first instinct, I assumed it was a particularly unique fungal species and snapped a ...

Until a few years ago, most people who knew what a ghost pipe was had a degree in botany. The spindly stems of the parasitic species — which appear bleach-white because they lack chlorophyll — emerge ...

Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa ...

It's a long time until Halloween, but here's a spooky little plant. Indian pipes or corpse plant, Monotropa uniflora, is actually one of the most common wildflowers in eastern North America. It grows ...

Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa ...

Kim Estep of Columbus saw this very rare monotropa uniflora, aka Indian Pipe, in western Bartholomew County. Kim Estep of Columbus saw this very rare monotropa uniflora, aka Indian Pipe, in western ...

During a recent scientific expedition in the primeval forests of the Ailao Mountains in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, a Sichuan entomologist unexpectedly discovered seven rare saprophytic plants ...