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Photo by DonnEdwards
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Pine Forest. 10,000ft

Species ID Suggestions

spotted coralroot

Corallorhiza maculata

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Travis Morse
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Comments (2)
craigwilliams
Hello Donn. Thanks for this wonderful shot of a really stunning mycoheterotrophic (fungal parasite) orchid! Gordon's right on Corallorhiza, my money would be on a form of C.maculata.
Gordon Dietzman
This is one of the coralroot orchids in the genus Corallorhiza. To narrow your ID search, you might want to start at http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=CORAL5&display=63. I'd be curious as to what you might find.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2012

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