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Pinesap

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Pinesap, like all saprophytes, is a plant without chlorophyll. Instead of sunlight to convert to energy, it is parasitic and feeds off of other living plants such. The pinesap feeds on the roots of conifers, as these are doing, found growing under a massive fir tree.

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© 2011
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4288x2848 / 13.8MB
Keywords
Ericaceae, Monotropa hypopithys, Mount Rainier, National Park, Washington, beautiful, beauty, environment, habitat, herb, herbaceous, inland, landscape, myco-heterotrophs, mycotrophic, natural, nature, oddball, parasite, parasitic, perennial, pinesap, plant, saprophyte, wild, wilderness
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Ericaceae (Heather and Rhododendrons), Saprophytes
Pinesap, like all saprophytes, is a plant without chlorophyll. Instead of sunlight to convert to energy, it is parasitic and feeds off of other living plants such. The pinesap feeds on the roots of conifers, as these are doing, found growing under a massive fir tree.