We were immediately fascinated by this plant when we first arrived in Dawson. We saw it several times during walks and assumed they were pine cones of some kind but touch revealed it was soft, almost meaty. We later learned that unlike most plants it has no chlorophyll and cannot produce any of its own nutrients, taking them instead from the roots of others. This plant was so strange and surprising to us in every way, when we left we continued to talk about it and missed seeing it. 

Brad has done some work about museum dioramas in the past, dealing with the way they are designed to mimic and camouflage, or make you question what is real. This photograph within a photograph is used to create a sort of diorama, which seemed an appropriate way to transplant the ground cone to our home in Southern Ontario.