A broomrape that is parasitic on the roots of beech trees. Unlike most broomrapes, it has branching stems.
Epifagus virginiana, family Orobanchaceae
Example sentencesExamples
Like Indian pipes, beechdrops have none of the chlorophyll of most plants and thus are not green.
Appearing in late summer and fall, beechdrops are common throughout southern Ontario wherever there are beech forests.
Peculiar, parasitic beechdrops grow on the roots of beech trees; squawroot, another plant devoid of chlorophyll, gains its nutrition from the leaf litter.
The dried stems of beechdrops can often be found through the winter.
Like all other members of the Broom-rape family, beechdrops lacks chlorophyll and is wholly parasitic, stealing nutrients from the roots of beech trees.
Definition of beechdrops in US English:
beechdrops
nounˈbēCHdräps
A broomrape that is parasitic on the roots of beech trees. Unlike most broomrapes, it has branching stems.
Epifagus virginiana, family Orobanchaceae
Example sentencesExamples
Appearing in late summer and fall, beechdrops are common throughout southern Ontario wherever there are beech forests.
Peculiar, parasitic beechdrops grow on the roots of beech trees; squawroot, another plant devoid of chlorophyll, gains its nutrition from the leaf litter.
The dried stems of beechdrops can often be found through the winter.
Like all other members of the Broom-rape family, beechdrops lacks chlorophyll and is wholly parasitic, stealing nutrients from the roots of beech trees.
Like Indian pipes, beechdrops have none of the chlorophyll of most plants and thus are not green.