Ghost Plant, 他们叫她。Corpse Plant，她还被这样叫着。

第一眼看到她时，我被惊呆了。她有十几厘米高。除了尖端上一点点的黑斑，通体洁白。植物？真菌？

我觉得她不是真菌，因为长的不像。有叶有花的样子，不会是真菌的。

但是如果是植物怎么会完全没有叶绿素？不进行光合作用的话，她靠什么长到这么高的？所以她只能是腐生！？

她生长在密闭阴森的森林地面上。她没有气味，却有那样的一种气息：腐生，那种腐生的气息。

她一尘不染。 明丽而庄严。

Ghost Plant, 他们叫她。而第一刹那我看到她，我不知道她是什么，却也用类似的方式叫她：幽灵之花。

从野外回来，把照片给一个教授看，她见过这种Ghost Plant。她告诉我这是植物，并且并不罕见。

Google找到Wikipedia的词条：

Monotropa uniflora, also known as the Ghost Plant, Indian Pipe, or Corpse Plant is a herbaceous perennial plant, formerly classified in the family Monotropaceae, but now included within the Ericaceae. It is native to temperate regions of Asia, North America and northern South America, but with large gaps between areas.^[1] It is generally scarce or rare in occurrence.

Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll. Instead of generating energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, more specifically a myco-heterotroph. Its hosts are certain fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, meaning it ultimately gets its energy from photosynthetic trees. Since it is not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in very dark environments as in the understory of dense forest. The complex relationship that allows this plant to grow also makes propagation difficult.

The plant is sometimes completely white but commonly has black flecks and a pale pink coloration.^[2] Rare variants may have a deep red color.

The stems reach heights of 10-30 cm, clothed with small scale-leaves 5-10 mm long. As its scientific name suggests, and unlike the related Monotropa hypopitys (but like the closely related Monotropastrum humile), the stems bear only a single flower, 10-15 mm long with 3-8 petals. It flowers from early summer to early autumn.

Like most mycoheterotrophic plants, M. uniflora associates with a small range of fungal hosts, all of them members of Russulaceae ^[3] 

Monotropa uniflora 是她的学名。uniflora是属名，uni-代表单一，flora是花。她的叶退化了。

她是寄生的生物，不是腐生。她的寄主是寄生于植物的根瘤菌。她的养料最初的来源仍然是那些高等的植物。这些植物提供给根瘤菌养分。然后她从根瘤菌获取养料。这种关系真的很奇特。

中国也有这样的植物。她被叫做：水晶兰。一个天堂般的名字。（链接）。

中国人强悍，有人栽培水晶兰，还拿她来药用和炖肉。

她被叫作Ghost Plant。她却不该用中文被叫做幽灵之花。

她有更好听的名字：水晶兰。