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BLOG POST Star Stuff and Living Things Moving Through Monotropism
Monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe: a plant with no chlorophyll that feeds off fungi, the flower Emily Dickinson called the preferred flower of life, and the Greek root it shares with monotropism.
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