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Deep red variety of Ghost plants Monotropa uniflora #shorts
Ghost plant is white and does not contain chlorophyll. Rare varieties are pink to deep red and as of yet, there is no explanation for this.

Monotropa uniflora – known as Ghost Plant, Ghost Flower, Ghost Pipe, Indian Pipe, or Corpse Flower, is a perennial wildflower with a wide geographic distribution throughout the United States, from Maine to California and from Florida to Alaska. It is absent from the southwest, intermountain west, and the central Rocky Mountains. It is not a commonly encountered wildflower.
Monotropa uniflora (Monotropa – once turned; uniflora – one flowered) ranges in height from 10 to 30 centimeters. The entire plant is translucent, “ghostly” white, sometimes pale pinkish-white, and commonly has black dots. The leaves are scale-like and flecked with black on the flower stalk (peduncle). As the Latin epithet uniflora implies, the stem bears a single flower. Upon emerging from the ground, the flower is pendant (downwardly pointed). As the anthers and stigma mature, the flower spreads to all most perpendicular to the stem. The fruit is a capsule. As the capsule matures, the flower becomes erect (in line with the stem). Once ripened, the seed is released through slits that open from the tip to the base of the capsule. The plant is persistent after seed dispersal.

America’s eminent poet, Emily Dickinson, called the Ghost Plant “the preferred flower of life.” In a letter to Mabel Todd, she confides, “I still cherish the clutch with which I bore it from the ground when a wondering child, and unearthly booty, and maturity only enhances the mystery, never decreases it.”

Ghost Plant is parasitic and more specifically mycoheterotrophic. Its hosts are certain fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, meaning it ultimately gets its energy from photosynthetic trees. Since it is not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in very dark environments as in the understory of dense forest. It is often associated with beech trees. It grows where sunlight can not get to.
It is also called Indian Pipe but that is a derogatory term and I chose not to use it more than this statement.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/beauty/mycotrophic/monotropa_uniflora.shtm

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