put that in your pipe and smoke it
put that in your pipe and smoke it
Monotropa uniflora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora
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I get most of the tweet but not the "who would post this?" part.
Wouldn't everybody post it?
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that part exists as clickbait
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The Jim Rose circus is a famous counter-culture performance. At the show I saw a woman put paint in her butt and farted it onto a canvas. There was also light bulb eating, further nudity, chainsaw juggling etc
In that context, it would be surprising to see them tweet about botany, making this kinda a joke tweet in itself that they would tweet this, which is why it has the commentary.
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Ah thanks for the context!!
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Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll.[9] Instead of generating food using the energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, and more specifically a mycoheterotroph. Its hosts are in the Russulaceae family.[9] Most fungi are mycorrhizal, meaning that they grow symbiotically in association with tree roots. Through the fungal web of mycorrhizae, the M. uniflora roots ultimately sap food from where the host fungi are connected to the photosynthetic trees.
Sick. Note that plants generally fall on a spectrum between food-generating from sunlight and parasitism through their roots; though generally, plants don't just steal nutrients from fungi, they exchange nutrients with them, i.e. it's a mutualistic relationship.
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They're really cool little plants, I see them sometimes on trails when out hiking and it's always a treat.
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They look so sad with their heads hanging down looking at the ground
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sad parasites
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There's rarer ones like in the family, like gnome plant and hypotytis, and the famous snow plant. Fun fact orchids are partial mycoheterotrophs, and some species have become much the same way as these plants, lost all its chlorophyll, the sad thing is mycoheterotph in general are quite rare, as their associated with specific fungus and environment. I think the Chinese have managed to cultivate one species of gastrodia orchid( full mycoheterotroph), the others are very rare species, and a lot are recently discovered, because they don't show up every year
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Monotropa uniflora, also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe, is an herbaceous, parasitic, non-photosynthesizing, perennial flowering plant native to temperate regions of Asia, North America, and northern South America, but with large gaps between areas.
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Walter H. Prest described the plant as having an asparagus-like flavor once cooked.
Yeah I would expect this to just instantly kill me.
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maybe he did as well
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So is it in anyway related to mushroom?
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it's a plant, but rather than photosynthesizing, it is what's called a mycoheterotroph, which means it gets its nutrients by siphoning stuff from fungal networks in the soil, so, sorta?
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It is a plant, just of a sort that has turned to parasitism I suppose for its nutrients. I believe they are part of a larger family of plants named saprophytes.
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Ghost Pipe is a fungi.
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I don't know where you heard that but it's incorrect
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_of_action_of_aspirin
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And it has glycosides too! So it may also be toxic to humans.
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Totally thought I was replying to a different thread lol. Ugh brain.
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Oh my god, this brought back memories!
I had a book as a small child about various weird plants. Pitcher plants, water lilies, stuff like that. I remember reading about a plant with no chlorophyll called the ghost plant or something and thinking it was the coolest thing ever, but I could never find that book again. This was also before I knew how to use the internet so I had no way of looking up the plant, thanks for reminding me of it!
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did you know all orchids mycohetrotrophs, they all depend on fungus to germinate, because thier seeds are like tiny and have no food source. some orchids. had taken it further and become something similar like this plant, no chorophyll. we can cultivate phalnopolis(and sell them as house plants) because these are one of the few ones we can artificially germinate the plant, and gastrodia elata is one of the species of fully mycohetrophs that can be cultivated, the other species in the same genus, not so much, very difficult(because they need specific fungal specie and conditions).
its unheard for other mycoheterotrops for the same reason.
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These look like toilet paper rolls.
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These are very common where I live. Until now, I only knew about the common name "Indian pipe."
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So can we smoke it?
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Only once.
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