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Indian Pipe [Monotropa uniflora]

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors identifies Monotropa uniflora, or Indian Pipe. Indian Pipe is a parasitic plant with no chlorophyll, yet still flowers and produces pollen like regular green plants.

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Video Transcription

hey wassup Turtles its Creek here with black outdoors Stoney and IRL and I'll hike right now trying to shoot some videos we found a really cool plant I really want to share with you stoning just go ahead and grab it and really excited about this plant this plant is a common name Indian pipe genus I believe monitor oppa I'm going to hold off on the species right now but what's so cool about this plant its actual a plant these are flowers right here drooping flowers which it's um it's a parasitic plant like I said it's not green you can see there's no green in it because there's no chlorophyll it's not making food from the Sun maybe you know but it's not making food from the Sun it's getting all the nutrients from the ground where it's growing grows you know in the under the canopy and really rich decaying soil a lot of organic matter it's a waxy feel you know this is pretty stiff I'm trying to pull the flower up a little bit to show you the impart the insides of it but it's really it's really stiff I'm not going to stress it too much I want to break it I kind of just want to get that once eaten oh so cool CNN English and those sex parts in there this is such an amazing find I don't believe I've ever seen these before a white plant a white flowering plant all white no green this blows my mind

Indian pipe south central Pennsylvania script signing out with black outdoors later Turtles

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Black Owl Outdoors

Black Owl Outdoors

Welcome to Black Owl Outdoors official YouTube page. We shoot all of our HD videos in the great outdoors and our topics vary with our interests. We do bushcraft type stuff. We talk about plants. We talk about rocks. We talk about water. We talk about animals. We talk about places. We talk about life. We are Krik & stony, just 2 brothers with a hankering for the peace that nature loves to offer.

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