Ghost Pipes: Identification, Edibility and Health Benefits

Ghost pipes are so interesting and they have quite the history for medicinal uses. I mentioned in the video about adding a couple of poems about the ghost pipes - they are below! For more information see below:

- Ghost Pipes: (identification, distinguishing features, flowers, leaves, height, habitat & edible parts): https://www.ediblewildfood.com/indian-pipe.aspx

Tis whiter than an Indian Pipe (1879)
Emily Dickinson

'Tis whiter than an Indian Pipe
'Tis dimmer than a Lace
No stature has it, like a Fog
When you approach the place
Not any voice imply it here
Or intimate it there
A spirit how doth it accost
What function hath the Air?
This limitless Hyperbole
Each one of us shall be
'Tis Drama if Hypothesis
It be not Tragedy


Ghost-Flowers (approx. 1893)
By: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson

In shining groups, each stem a pearly ray,
Weird flecks of light within the shadowed wood,
They dwell aloof, a spotless sisterhood.
No Angelus, except the wild birds lay,
Awakes these forest nuns; yet night and day
Their heads are bent, as if in prayerful mood.
A touch will mar their snow, and tempests rude
Defile; but in the mist fresh blossoms stray
From spirit-gardens just beyond our ken.
Each year we seek their virgin haunts, to look
Upon new loveliness, and watch again
Their shy devotions near the singing brook;
Then, mingling in the dizzy stir of men,
Forget the vows made in the cloistered nook.

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