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(Photo courtesy JAY MOCK) “Indian Pipe, Monotropa unifloria, are coming up in the Bonner Co. woods even on these hot July days in spite of their delicate and fragile appearance,” writes Jay Mock in submitting this stunning photo. “These flowers are saprophytes, lacking chlorophyll, and are plants but like mushrooms feed on dead organic matter. They are coming up now in the shaded understory of forest where nothing else grows for lack of sunlight. There’s usually no other plants in their company, just these white elfin like ghosts popping up through the forest floor clutt…