Corallorhiza maculata (spotted coralroot) - Flickr - brewbooks

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Description: Corallorhiza maculata (spotted coralroot) Corallorhiza maculata, or spotted coralroot, is a North American coralroot orchid flower. Varieties are also known as western coralroot and summer coralroot. It is found from Mexico to Canada, mostly in woodlands. This orchid is a myco-heterotroph; it lacks chlorophyll and gets food by parasitizing the mycelium of fungi in the family Russulaceae. Source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corallorhiza_maculata accessed 25 April 2010 Myco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy accessed 26 April 2010 Washington Park, Anacortes, Skagit County, Washington Corallorhiza maculata, or spotted coralroot, is a North American coralroot orchid flower. Varieties are also known as western coralroot and summer coralroot. It is found from Mexico to Canada, mostly in woodlands. This orchid is a myco-heterotroph; it lacks chlorophyll and gets food by parasitizing the mycelium of fungi in the family Russulaceae. Source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corallorhiza_maculata accessed 25 April 2010 Myco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy accessed 26 April 2010 Washington Park, Anacortes, Skagit County, Washington. Date: 21 April 2014, 12:32. Source: Corallorhiza maculata (spotted coralroot). Author: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA. Camera location48° 29′ 35.97″ N, 122° 42′ 07.73″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth 48.493324; -122.702146.