Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ghost pipe springs from forest leaf litter. By mid-to-late summer, woodlands are cloaked in deep shade, root zone temperatures are ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Few people outside herbalist circles had heard of ghost pipe a decade ago. These days, however, this strange white plant that lacks chlorophyll has developed an almost cult-like ...

I was recently in a large southern Ohio forest, casting about for various interesting summer plants. The temperature was about 85 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity — seasonally apropos. Those two ...