DCHP-3

ghost flower

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a pale parasitic plant, Monotropa uniflora, found in compost in damp places.

Quotations

1860
The Ghost Flower, Indian Pipe or Monotropa, is a white plant springing up from decayed leaves now very plentiful. . . .
1932
The Indian Pipe, Corpse Plant, or Ghost Flower (Monotropa uniflora), Pyrola family, appropriately deserves its alternative names, standing as it does in ghastly whiteness in the shadowed woods.