Snow Plant
Also know as Snow Flower. Its scientific name roughly translates to "the bloody flesh-like thing." Snow plant has no chlorophyll; it derives nutrition from fungi underneath the soil.
I saw more of these on this trip than in my entire life, combined.
Sarcodes sanguinea
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Snow Plant
Also know as Snow Flower. Its scientific name roughly translates to "the bloody flesh-like thing." Snow plant has no chlorophyll; it derives nutrition from fungi underneath the soil.
I saw more of these on this trip than in my entire life, combined.
Sarcodes sanguinea
1,298
views
12
faves
3
comments
Uploaded on July 9, 2019
Taken on July 4, 2019