Comments on: Your Daily Parasite Fix: The Corpse Flower

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:43:27 +0000

A nice and slightly odd looking plant, At first I thought they were some sort of wild orchid LOL ;)

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Guaranteed White Christmas for the Albino Redwood — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:09:58 +0000

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By: Jennifer Frazer

Jennifer Frazer — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:33:16 +0000

If you do a little research online you’ll find they’re sometimes referred to as “corpse” plants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/indian_pipe.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/warrenlynn/2757248850/
It’s not uncommon for several different species, even from wildly different places on the family tree, to have the same common name. That’s why Linnaeus invented binomial nomenclature. That said, I personally have never called them anything other than “Indian Pipe”.

By: smarter then u

smarter then u — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:19:30 +0000

these are not “corpse” plants, and there really isn’t anything corpse like. Amorphophallus titanum is the real corpse plant, belonging to the Araceae family.