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Indian Pipes

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lance biechele

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Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:06:58 -0700

Hu Folks,
   Indian pipes are not mushrooms or even vaguely related to fungi.
Members of the wintergreen family of flowering plants, they have
developed a unique mutalism with trees and a mushroom.  They 
live as parasites on the mycorrhizal relationship of the mushroom!
   As my dear friend would say, "Can you beat that!!"
Best wishes,
Lance