Indian Pipe Plant. Taking A Cutting!

By the time I got back to the Cabin, the Indian Pipe Plant was dead.
I took a couple of the flowerheads anyway.
If you are going to harvest these plants,
please wait until they have been pollinated.
When the plant first comes out of the ground,
the flower heads will be turned downward, towards the ground.
After they are pollinated, usually by Bumblebees,
the flowerhead becomes erect, as I showed in the previous video.
There are slits in the sides of the flowerhead,
and the wind, or an animal bumping the plant, disburses the seeds.
If you want this perennial plant to return year after year,
it is best NOT to take the flowerheads before they have been pollinated.
And PLEASE don't dig up the plant, or take the roots.
It won't grow anywhere else anyway, as it needs the nutrient web,
found in the soil, among Beech trees, Pine trees,
and Russulaceae mushrooms, to feed itself.
You don't need the roots, or the flowerhead before it is pollinated,
in order to make a tincture.
A video on the tincture making is coming soon.