Question: This looks parasitic, but I don’t find anything that quite matches its configuration. Central MA under a pine tree.
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Question
This looks parasitic, but I don’t find anything that quite matches its configuration. Central MA under a pine tree.
Answer
Dear Stonehill, you have photographed Hypopitys monotropa (yellow pine-sap). This is a native species found in the heath family. It is a parasite--on fungi (and it derives all of its food through mycoheterotrophy), so it does not produce chlorophyll. Best wishes.
