Friday, March 18, 2011

snowplant

snowplant by mathnerd
snowplant a photo by mathnerd on Flickr.
over the moon
reflecting off granite walls
snowplant pushing up
vampire red
sucking the life's blood
of the pine roots
at the mercy
of Spring

3 comments:

  1. I have never heard of a snowplant. Sounds like it would go well with the Bat Flower (Triffid). Where did you take this picture at?

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  2. Snowplant is a parasitic plant, no chlorophyll at all. It grows off the roots of pine tree. As I understand it, it's often one of the first plants up and is found pushing up through the snow. (There's a related plant called a pinedrop, that is brown, and is taller.)

    This picture was taken up in the Kern Meadows area. So north up into the mountains above Kernville.

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  3. I have now seen a Snowplant. Actually we saw several on our walk through the sequoia groves in the same area you mentioned above. Cool. :-)

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