Corallorrhiza mertensiana Bong. Blanca Lake

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Description: Corallorrhiza mertensiana Bong. Pacific coralroot, western coralroot Orchidaceae Blanca Lake Trail 1052 , Snohomish County, Washington, USA ~ 3000 feet 15 Jul 2006 These are mycotrophic plants that obtain their organic carbon from a host green plant by tapping into an intermediary mycorrhizal fungus attached to the roots of the host plant. 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae i071506 076 biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.ph... Date: 15 July 2006, 15:41. Source: Corallorrhiza mertensiana Bong. Blanca Lake. Author: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA.