No, these plants aren't smoked. They are called Indian Pipes because they look like pipes. Maybe Indigenous Americans ate them for medicinal purposes but they're not big enough to use as a pipe. They're small clusters of white plants. They're white because they don't photosynthesize. They have no chlorophyll. Some people call them ghost plants because they have no color.
They're not mushrooms but their roots feed with a root relationship with fungi and trees. So it's a parasitic existence.
If you pick them, they quickly turn black. What would be the point?
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