How does Indian Pipe Plant get food?
This plant doesn't photosynthesize since it's not green. Instead, it taps into the mycorrhizal network of fungi that get nutrients from trees. It's like borrowing from your friend's Netflix account!
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Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora) is a parasite! It gets food by siphoning nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that are symbiotic with trees. So it's like a sneaky middleman in the forest food chain!
Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora) feeds off fungi that are connected to tree roots. It's a plant vampire!
Indian Pipe is basically a ghost plant鈥攏o chlorophyll. It mooches off fungi which are getting their nutrients from tree roots. Paranormal plant activity!
Huh, Indian Pipe? It just freeloads off fungi that have a relationship with trees. No sunlight needed!
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