Intro: Fleshy, erect perennial lacking chlorophyll, found in rich, moist forests under oak trees.

Stems: Stems leafless, thick and fleshy (up to 1 in. thick), yellowish- to pale-brown, covered with brown scales and often growing in clumps.

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Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers densely packed into a spike that occupies half or more of the plant, pale-yellow, to ½ in. long, tubular with 2 lips.

Fruits: Fruit an oval to round capsule.

Comments: The whole plant, which is parasitic on the roots of oaks (Quercus spp.), resembles an ear of corn and later, as it turns dry and brown with age, a pine cone.

Height: 4-10 in.

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description: Fleshy, erect perennial lacking chlorophyll, found in rich, moist forests under oak trees.

stems: Stems leafless, thick and fleshy (up to 1 in. thick), yellowish- to pale-brown, covered with brown scales and often growing in clumps.

leaves:

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers densely packed into a spike that occupies half or more of the plant, pale-yellow, to ½ in. long, tubular with 2 lips.

fruits: Fruit an oval to round capsule.

comments: The whole plant, which is parasitic on the roots of oaks (Quercus spp.), resembles an ear of corn and later, as it turns dry and brown with age, a pine cone.

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