There are a lot of plants that rely on others and I will post a few here. Of course you may have some of these in your forests, parasitic flowers. Here we have two images of the Candy Cane plant, Allotropa virgata. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
The stem does look like candy cane doesn't it? The flowers are very attractive with their white and deep red petals.
I have 27 more parasitic plants. I can add one daily if you wish to see what is in the forests besides trees.
Some of the plants are not depenant on a host plants but are more vigorous if they do have a host. They have more flowers and grow bigger, like when you feed your plants. Others have to have a host plant. Today we have Ground Cone, Boschniakia hookeri. Rather hard to see among thick undergrowth. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
The first one's eye candy. And the ground cone really looks like a cone. I don't think they grow here though.
Today we are up in the higher elevations with Elephant Head, Pedicularis groenlandica. Strange but nice to find. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
I like these parasitic flowers, this is a strange one, Pinesap, Monotropa hypopithys. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
