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If you want to see closer click to see the flowers terminal clusters. They are fringed and actually very delicate upon closer examination.
Pinesap also called Dutchman's pipe, false beech-drops, or yellow bird's-nest, is in the family (Ericaceae). Unlike most plants, it does not contain chlorophyll; it is a myco-heterotroph, getting its food through parasitism upon fungi rather than photosynthesis. The fungi form a mycorrhiza with nearby tree species. The nutrients are transported from tree roots to pinesap through mycorrhiza.
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Pinesap is a species in the heath family, Ericaceae, the same plant family to which blueberries belong. Pinesap lacks chlorophyll, instead deriving its food from parasitizing fungi. This was the first time I have seen the more colorful red form of this plant. Photographed near vernal ponds in Augusta County, VA.
Monotrope sucepin (Monotropa hypopitys)
Ce n'est pas un champignon mais une plante non chlorophyllienne de la famille des Éricacées. Cette espèce vit en symbiose parasitaire avec le mycélium des champignons du genre Tricholoma, par l'intermédiaire duquel elle exploite les produits de la photosynthèse des arbres associés aux champignons. Cette relation se nomme la mycohétérotrophie.
When I first encountered this plant I had no idea what it was - except that I could somehow see that it was not a mushroom. Indeed, it wasn't one. Instead, Monotropa uniflora is a chlorophyll-less plant, which gets its nutrients as a parasite on fungi (which in turn live on plant roots). This relationship between plant and fungus is also referred to as Myco-heterotrophy and can also be found in some Orchid species. The ghost pipe is related to a similar species that also grows in Europe - Monotropa hypopitys, Fichtenspargel in German.
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This plant does not contain chlorophyll and is mycoheterotropic, getting it's nutrients through fungi associated with nearby tree roots.
Yellow Bird's Nest / hypopitys monotropa. Stanton Sidings, Derbyshire. 12/08/17.
Yellow Bird's Nest is a rare, native perennial that is localised in S.E England but becomes increasingly scarce further north and west.
Imagine then the thrill I had when I found it growing on an old industrial brownfield site just five minutes drive from home! Since then I've retuned several times to photograph the plants and at last, this evening, I started to achieve the sort of shots I was after.
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A plant with no chlorophyll, it gets its food by parasitizing the mycorrhizal fungi in soil, which, in turn take food from the trees with which they network. The entire growth emerging from the ground is an inflorescence, or flower cluster. The plants that emerge in summer tend to be yellow, while those appearing in autumn tend toward coral or red, like these, which caught the low angled sunlight, and caught my eye as well. The dramatic light led me to see, and then to learn, something new.
Yellow bird's nest (or Dutchman's Pipe or False Beech-drops) an unusual plant. It has no chlorophyl, no leaves and survives through parasitising tree root mychorrizal fungi, in this case Pine trees.
Lincolnshire, UK. - maybe not the most attractive of plants, but it was great to see this very rare plant for the first time.
aka Pinesap...my old nemesis. I've never seen it here in Wisconsin so consider my socks knocked off to discover it on the Turtle Rock IAT segment - my surrogate backyard. I found this solitary flower pushing up through the leaves and did an 11-image stack.
Monotropa hypopitys. Found along the Rattlesnake Mountain Trail. Stack of 29 images (yeah, I kind of went overboard there).
Rattlesnake Mtn Scenic Area, WA
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Yellow Bird's Nest / hypopitys monotropa. Stanton Sidings, Derbyshire. 11/08/17.
I made an exciting discovery at my local brownfield site this week....29 flower spikes of Yellow Bird's Nest. This intriguing, transient plant lacks chlorophyll. It derives nutrients by parasitism, using mycorrhizal fungi that are attached to the roots of nearby trees. It is therefore dependent upon both the fungus and vascular plant association for its entire life.
I have never seen YBN growing at this site before but have found out it can exist underground for many years before appearing. It only emerges to flower and because of this, is thought to be under recorded and classed as 'Scarce to Rare'.
In Derbyshire it seems that records of it are confined to the mid-county and White Peak areas.
Not the easiest of situations to make images in....I had to lay on leaf litter under a dense canopy of scrub and use my on-camera flash.
(Apologies to the lady dog walker who nearly passed out at the sight of what she assumed to be a dead body!)
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I believe Monotropa hypopitys, a very strange parasitic plant, on the Pacific Crest Trail, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Washington Cascades.
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Auch der Fichtenspargel (Monotropa hypopitys) ist ein Schmarotzer im Pflanzenreich. Fahlgelb bis hellbraun gefärbt findet man ihn nicht allzu häufig im Wald. Auch er bildet kein Chlorophyll sondern ernährt sich von Nährstoffen, die ihm von einem Pilz zur Verfügung gestellt werden.
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This parasitic plant takes nutrients through an intermediate fungi from a host tree. Only the flowers appear above ground.
Pinesap (Monotropa hypopitys). It is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and is scarce or rare in many areas.
You don't see these mushroom-like flowers very often so I wanted to try and get a decent shot. I used the 35mm prime and laid down on my stomach so I could get a bokeh forest in the background. I might have used a little too wide an aperture though since my DoF turned out to be a bit narrow.
Monotropa hypopitys
Tubal Cain trail, NE Olympic Mts
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Pinesap also called Dutchman's pipe, false beech-drops, or yellow bird's-nest, is in the family (Ericaceae). Unlike most plants, it does not contain chlorophyll; it is a myco-heterotroph, getting its food through parasitism upon fungi rather than photosynthesis. The fungi form a mycorrhiza with nearby tree species. The nutrients are transported from tree roots to pinesap through mycorrhiza.
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Brief day trip to the upstate of South Carolina. I had recently seen images of some wildflowers from a Flickr friend, Meng Zhang, which were taken in Devil's Fork State Park in Oconee County, South Carolina. I knew I would be visiting 10 days late, but I hoped that the wildflowers would still be in good shape.
Unfortunately, these Pinesap flowers had gone to seed. But, at least I know now when to go back next year.
See what the plant looks like in flower, below...