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Pine Drops, Pine drops, pinedrops, or woodland pinedrops (Pterospora andromedea).  They live in a parasitic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi, in which plants derive all their carbon from their associated fungus, but the relationship is not yet well understood. The term for this kind of symbiosis is mycoheterotrophy.  These are often commonly referred to as a saprophytic plant.