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August 10, 2009

Monday Morning Mystery 081009

Am myst-2
   Sally Teschon found these attractive and delicate fungi in the wood-chip pile at the north end of the Celery Farm.
   Anybody want to ID them?
   (Thanks, Sally.)
    More Monday Morning Mysteries here.

 

3 comments

  • sally teschon
    17 years ago Reply

    you are most kind-it is exactly the type of relationship I have with the farm-mutual symbiotic

  • jim wright
    17 years ago Reply

    Thanks, Tom. You are on top of your game, as always…

  • Tom Burr
    17 years ago Reply

    What beautiful specimens! It’s Monotropa uniflora–the Indian Pipe. It’s NOT a fungus, but a flowering plant. But it lacks chlorophyll, so it is heterotrophic (doesn’t make its own food). It is in fact in a symbiotic relationship with a mycorrhizal fungus, which in turn gets its food from a tree–a really interesting sort of food chain.
    Beautiful photography, Sally!
    TB

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3 comments

  • sally teschon
    17 years ago Reply

    you are most kind-it is exactly the type of relationship I have with the farm-mutual symbiotic

  • jim wright
    17 years ago Reply

    Thanks, Tom. You are on top of your game, as always…

  • Tom Burr
    17 years ago Reply

    What beautiful specimens! It’s Monotropa uniflora–the Indian Pipe. It’s NOT a fungus, but a flowering plant. But it lacks chlorophyll, so it is heterotrophic (doesn’t make its own food). It is in fact in a symbiotic relationship with a mycorrhizal fungus, which in turn gets its food from a tree–a really interesting sort of food chain.
    Beautiful photography, Sally!
    TB

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