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    Use of traditional forest medicinal plant ghost pipe influenced by social media

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    Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa uniflora, remains a mystery. Now, with social media and the internet driving a resurgence in the harvest and economic trade of the parasitic species—which appears strangely white because it is devoid of chlorophyll—a research team from Penn State has taken the first step toward documenting its new status.
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