a pale parasitic plant, Monotropa uniflora, found in compost in damp places.
See also: Indian pipe
- 1860  The Ghost Flower, Indian Pipe or Monotropa, is a white plant springing up from decayed leaves now very plentiful. . . .
- 1932  The Indian Pipe, Corpse Plant, or Ghost Flower (Monotropa uniflora), Pyrola family, appropriately deserves its alternative names, standing as it does in ghastly whiteness in the shadowed woods.