Around here people can them Indian pipe plant. Some kind of mushroom I think. Not poisonous, but not edible. Think they only "bloom" like that once or twice a year.
I haven't had much luck searching that name, although it's been years since I've tried.
Not a mushroom, but a parasitic plant. They lack chlorophyll, since they get their nutrition by parasitizing the roots of other plants. I also think they're called Indian pipe.
Yup. Indian Pipe of some sort. Beautifully elegant. Fungus.
When I was in boy scouts, I learned about them. We called them Indian pipes as well.
I believe they were a fairly uncommon plant most places. I could be wrong on that last point.
The environment at my cabin grows many species of fungus and moss, grass not so much. Lots of shade on a river, not a lot of trees but the ones I have are large oak, pine and maple. We have edible oak stump shrooms, a couple large ones that look like tulips and big buttons and a few bright red and orange ones. Next I need to find out which ones pack a buzz and which ones make you sick.
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