Indian Pipe (Ghost Flower): Kennebunk, Maine, USA, September 2025 — Still out looking for mushrooms to photograph, but the forest is so dry there are not even any (many) Indian Pipe. Indian Pipe is a strange little plant that has no chlorophyl of its own. It is, as far as we know, a parasite on the fungi network that helps to nourish certain trees…tapping into the same source the trees do. The relationship between the fungi and the trees, is however, beneficial to both, making it symbiotic. If the Indian Pipe benefits the fungi, we are not aware of it yet. (I have my suspicions it does. But that is just me.) Anyway, a very interesting plant. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 75mm equivalent. Aperture program with my macro modifications. (f13 at 1/20th from a small pocket sized tripod). Processed in Photomator.