[at-l] re: what plant

<<  Actually I think it looks like a fungus or shroom with a leaf stuck to 
it. >>

Nope.  I had gotten up close and looked at it, carefully at the time.  That 
spike is precisely the plant, no broken off parts at all.  The leaves were 
merely a "bonus," courtesy of the shrubs/trees around the area, as you 
suggest.

It was white, with pinkish hues, and it seemed to have a scaley, light "bark" 
on it from which the spike appears to have emerged (or perhaps, the *bark* 
was peeling away from the spike?).  It *did* have a texture of a mushroom 
stem, however -- only firmer and smoother, almost like an Indian Pipe 
(monotropa).    There were absolutely no others around it -- that had been 
the only one.

Trailmixup
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