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Monotropa   Listen
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Monotropa  n.  (Bot.) A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.






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"Monotropa" Quotes from Famous Books



... orchis can be found; butterfly or honey-suckle orchis, Habenaria, as we are constrained to term it, is frequent; and where the beech-trees begin there are those curious parasites which are the only plants they tolerate, the Listera Nidus-avis, birds'-nest orchis, the Monotropa Hypopitys, or yellow birds'-nest, the beautiful lily-like Epipactis Grandiflora; while helleborine and the curious and capricious tooth-wort, Spiraea Filipendula or drop-wort, Gentiana Amarella, and other distinctive chalk-down plants ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge



Words linked to "Monotropa" :   false beachdrops, family Monotropaceae, pinesap, Indian pipe, Monotropaceae, waxflower, genus Monotropa, Monotropa uniflora



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