Indian pipe
a leafless, pearly white, saprophytic plant, Monotropa uniflora, of North America and Asia, having a solitary white flower and resembling a tobacco pipe.
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The Colchicum is associated in my mind with the Indian pipe and similar growths; it is curious, but it isn't pleasing.
Old-Time Gardens | Alice Morse EarleAnd looking for Indian-pipe when we were not looking for anything?
Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for Indian pipe
a white or pinkish saprophytic woodland plant, Monotropa uniflora, of the N hemisphere, with a solitary nodding flower resembling a pipe: family Monotropaceae
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