Ghost Pipe, Monotropa uniflora, is a peculiar perennial found in leaf litter in dark nooks of the Maine forests. Its energy is sapped from an intimate relationship between a tree and fungus, making ghost pipe a parasitic third-wheel.
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Learn about Maine’s moss, lichen and liverwort
Moss, lichen and liverwort are ancient plants. In fact, they were the first to creep out of the preverbal waters as algae as tiny plants that clung to rocks creating the basis for plant life on land. A single moss can live for thousands of years, and they grow on every continent—even Antarctica. As slow-growing…