Indian pipes are a neat little woodland plant. Ghostly white, they are members of a group of plants that don't use photosynthesis to make their own food but instead "prey" upon fungi, stealing ...

Indian pipes are those ghostly white, pipe-shaped plants that are commonly mistaken for fungi. Indian pipes are monotropes, a family of plants that lack chlorophyll and so aren't photosynthetic.

It's a long time until Halloween, but here's a spooky little plant. Indian pipes or corpse plant, Monotropa uniflora, is actually one of the most common wildflowers in eastern North America. It ...