I think I found......

[FarmerDave]

Yeah, I was looking through my backyard near my house and I saw some little red stalks coming out of the ground. I want to look and there were little pink and purple dotted flowers with only a lower skirt and they looked surprizingly like orchids. no leaves no roots, just a bulb like object and thin flowerstalks.

 

[Clint]

Sounds like Corallorhiza wisteriana.

If it is, it's a saprophyte and has a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi.

 

[FarmerDave]

that's exactly it!
yep, and I found litterally hundreds of them.

are they hard to cultivate?

 

[Clint]

Oh I dunno. I just did a quick google search to figure out what it was lol.

They have large corraline "roots" and depend on their fungi.

I'd leave them alone.

 

[FarmerDave]

Darn!!! I hope that they "pollinate" (i'm not sure how orchids work) and then I can spread them deeper into my yard

 

[Clint]

They won't do anything if you scatter the seed in your yard unless the symbiotic fungi required for germination is already there.

 

[FarmerDave]

really?
well that stinks!!!!
oh well, I guess that I have to find out a way to cultivate the fungus

 

[FarmerDave]

Another thing that my dad actually found was a 'glow in the Dark' fungus, and we were actually able to spread it around our yard

 

[Clint]

Oh that sounds cool. I've never seen one.

I like fungi especially with some soy sauce

 

[FarmerDave]

On shiitaki mushrooms or that black fungus stuff that they put in Calamari Salad?
Both are REALLY REALLY GOOD!!!!!

 

[Clint]

I like all of them