Alexis Nikole Nelson Instagram – Ghost Pipe (Monotropa uniflora) and its cousin PineSap are ✨heterotrophs✨ meaning they need to form relationships with fungi and trees to survive! This is why they can’t be grown at home, and why disrupting them in their habitat can be detrimental to their numbers!! Also the tincture is NO JOKE, so as lovely and tempting as the purple is, dont go making it just for funsies! Ghost pipes are so special to come across, and honestly i was so happy just to see them and take their pictures for THIRTY YEARS of my life before i felt called to harvest any, and even then i took so very little (and only aerial parts, because i would never wanna disturb the careful labyrinth of roots and mycelium that they had to build) and yet this lil bottle will likely last me and my loved ones decades, should we need.