Description
A parasitic plant, which despite the name it is not harmful to the trees. It forms symbyosis with oak trees roots and appears on the woodland floor with ‘pine cones’ – like flowers in late spring, otherwise you wouldn’t know it lives underneath the ground.
It is an edible plant and has been also used by the Native People as a medicinal plant. Wild animals will feed on the ‘cones-like’ structures, hence the common name.
It spreads by seeds, in which case it will start flowering after four years.
Germination: incorporate the seeds in the fall around an oak tree (only species from Quercus rubra group have the proper mycorrhiza), and fingers crossed a few years later the ‘cones’ will appear; until then there will be no ‘signs’ above ground. Besides Quercus, it needs a woodland environment to develop and grow.
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