Indian Pipes!

[mondhasen]

We've had lots of mushrooms growing in the yard this year, and other assorted molds and slimes, possibly due to a very wet Winter and an abundance of humid days this Spring and Summer. We also have the subject plants popping through the leaf litter in the Hickory stands out back, plants I usually associate with early Autumn. I always considered these to be a form of fungus, but the internet tells me they belong to the plant kingdom. They are also parasitic Myco-heterotrophs... I somewhat understand the information in the wiki articles and won't regurgitate it here ;o)

I just love their local name and how they look in the wild!


Click each to see the original sized pics; these are magnificent plants.

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[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Nature's Splendors!

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

These, blue-eyed grasses, Lady Slippers, and Jack-in-the-Pulpits are some of my favorite local faunae!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Ah yes.. fine examples! Also, have you seen the Chinese Lantern ...?

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

*sigh* they are so beautiful. Like gourds, they remind me of Halloween. An uncle used to drop those off with us, along with pumpkins with our names scratched/grown into them, back in New York (I would have been 4 or 5 for that memory... like with Bugsy!). I never could get them to grow for me.