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  July 5, 2011 at 3:29 pm

  Erik – thanks for the biology lesson – and for helping me learn my new thing for the day!

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  Erik

  July 5, 2011 at 9:46 am

  Good find! Actually, though, those aren’t mushrooms or fungi at all… rather, they’re plants! Plants in the midst of blossoming their porcelain flowers, known as Indian Pipes (monotropa uniflora).

  These wee and ghostly beasties lack chlorophyll, thus the mushroom look, and become… obligate parasites! They feed off of mycorrhizal fungi (fungi on tree roots) in the ground. In this way they receive second-hand nutrients from the tree (tree->fungi->plant).
  ..so, in that sense, you indirectly did find a sort of mushroom!
  🙂