Indian Pipe Mushroom?

Not technically a mushroom I think, but could have fooled me.

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ccunning@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Yes, but it’s a parasitic plant; not a mushroom ☺️

Oops! Almost missed your text there…!

dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

also confirming it is a saprophytic plant (not a mushroom of a fungus).

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Monotropa uniflora, in the blueberry family. It parasitizes a fungus that parasitizes a tree.