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Hemitomes congestum
ranging from pale pink to dark burgandy, I am pretty sure this was David Gerrold's inspiration for the Chtorrans
woodland forest
I believe this is on of those symbiotic species: much like lichens, that are a fungus and another plant working together
Kathleen, thanks for the reminder. We were hiking again this same time of year(the Sunday after the 4th) and saw some and I could not remember the name
HI Karen. I enjoyed this older spotting of yours. I have been looking through my backlog of photos and posted one I took last year of a Gnome Plant in Manning Park, BC. This was a lifer for me! I hope to see more of them next week on my camping trip there.
I just posted another one believed to be one of these gnome plants. I see them often in and near Sisters, OR! I am still trying to definitely determine if it's same.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/744...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/690... I found and posted the dark purple red ones I found last year on a different trail
These are really strange and beautiful plants. for whatever reason, I'm really drawn to flowering plants that lack chlorophyll.
Thanks Scott for the ID. This is a great spotting. Apparently these are very rare, little is known about their life cycle.
@ auntnance123, I also think it is a Monotropa relative. Hemitomes congestum?
They seem to have the same translucent quality a indian pipe (momotropa); possile they're related?
I do, somewhere in my files - from spring 2010. I went looking for it one day and couldn't find it. The pink stuff has already pretty much disappeared. It only lasts for a very short time: like mushrooms, fungi and myco-heterotrophs. Both of these come up and then pretty much disappear just as chanterelles start coming up.
That's good. I think it would be interesting to keep an eye on it. Do you have a photo of the red version?
It's in the forests around - generally in douglas fir, but might also be in cedar. There is also a much darker red, almost maroon version that grows in sandier soils
This might be some kind of parasite or a symbiotic species, like you say. Are you able to go back and see what it grows into?
Spotted on Jul 3, 2011
Submitted on Jul 4, 2011
