"Richard Wright" wrote in message
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A friend sent me this photo for identification. He took it in the
Pyrenees last week. He describes it as a collection of limp tubes.

http://www.box.net/public/static/ys4dzg1xqn.jpg

Try _Lathraea clandestina_ a root parasite in the family
Orobanchaceae.

http://images.google.com/images?svnu...ea&btnG=Search

cheers