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“Where Friends Quarrel”: Ghost Pipe [Monotropa uniflora L.]

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Abstract:
Monotropa uniflora is also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe. According to some Cherokee stories, the plant was so named after a group of chiefs quarreled while passing a pipe around. The Great Spirit turned the chiefs into the plant as retribution for smoking the sacred pipe before making peace with each other. The plant is said to grow wherever friends have quarreled.
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“Where Friends Quarrel” , Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

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Ness, Robin W., "“Where Friends Quarrel”: Ghost Pipe [Monotropa uniflora L.] " (2024). Shared Magma: An American and Swedish Collaboration on Sisterhood and Sister Ore. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:gfxeeudv/

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