Jessie

The Gnome Plant was a bucket list species for me, and I saw it during my last couple of hours hiking the West Coast Trail! It’s a special plant because it doesn’t have any chlorophyll (hence why it’s pink and not green). It takes a different approach than most plants and, instead of relying on the sun, it taps into the underground mycelial network and extracts nutrients from it! At a talk from @leah_mycelia I learned that it likes to associate with Hydnellum peckii (Bleeding Tooth fungus), which makes me love it even more. Who wouldn’t want to associate with Bleeding Tooth?!

🆔: Hemitomes congestum
📸: 20205-07-30