Indian pipe

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A waxy white or sometimes pinkish saprophytic woodland plant (Monotropa uniflora) of North and Central America and East Asia, having scalelike leaves and a solitary nodding flower.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The corpse-plant or pine-sap, Monotropa uniflora: so named from the resemblance of the plant when in flower to a white clay pipe. See cut under Monotropa.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A white myco-heterotrophic herb, Monotropa uniflora, of the family Ericaceae.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age