• Snow Plant in Yosemite National Park (14-May-2009)

    Sixteen-Years Ago Today. Yosemite National Park in California.

    While driving into Yosemite National Park for a photography workshop with Michael Mariant I noticed something red off in the woods. I stopped to retrieve it if it was some trash but instead found these strange red objects growing out of the ground. When I showed the images that I took to Michael, he told me that they were Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) flowers. The Snow Plants don’t have any chlorophyll and derive their nutrition from fungi living under the soil near conifer trees.

    Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) in Yosemite National Park. Image taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 45 mm f/2.8 PC-E lens (ISO 100, 45 mm, f/8, 1/13 sec).

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