candystick
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Etymology
[edit]From its resemblance to a red-and white striped peppermint stick candy.
Noun
[edit]candystick
- A type of myco-heterotroph with a red and white striped stem (Allotropa virgata)
- 2001, Nez Perce National Forest (N.F.), Starbucky Restoration Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement, page 117:
- There are approximately 1500 acres of potential candystick habitat in the Conservation Unit, which is located entirely within the analysis area, mainly in VRU 6.
- 2011, Fran Kelso, Frances Kelso Graham, Plant Lore of an Alaskan Island, page 260:
- This family also includes some unusual fleshy, chlorophyll-lacking plants, such as Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora) and candystick (Allotropa virgata), which are saprophytic (feeding or growing upon dead or decaying organic matter).
- 2011, E. C. Pielou, The World of Northern Evergreens, page 75:
- Examples of them, shown in figure 7.1, are candystick (Allotropa virgata), pinesap (Monotropa hypopithys), Indian-pipe (Monotropa uniflora), and gnome-plant (Hemitomes congestum).