Not quite 😉 These are the maturing female archegonial heads of the Common Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha subsp ruderalis). These are for sexual reproduction of the liverwort.
To get an idea of the scale of these small umbrella-like growths note the moss growing in the background. I am half expecting to see a famous moustached Italian plumber dressed in a bright red and blue uniform wearing a red cap with a big ‘M’ on it to come bottom bouncing into the frame.
Click on Common Liverwort to see more images and to learn more about this plant.
Rear garden, Staffordshire, England. May 2017.
great photos Pete!
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Where’s the beach chair!? 😎 Cool photos!
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Lol! Thank you, Judy 🙂
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Very cool Pete 🙂
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Thank you, Alba 🙂 You know I passed this pot many times and although I knew there was liverwort growing in there I had never noticed these umbrella-like things until today.
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It really did look like a miniature forest!
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Awesome photography Pete 😊
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Thank you, Beth 🙂
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Wonderful! We have lots of mosses and liverworts, but I’ve never seen forms like this!
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Thank you 🙂 I love mosses and liverworts, and this is a first for me, too!
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How cute are they !
Almost looks like little cake decorations 🙂
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Even when I look at them now they kind of don’t look real, lol! 🙂 Kind of surreal.
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Gorgeous image. Now you’ve got me waiting to see that too 🙂 Seems so surreal.
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Thank you, Sumyanna 🙂 They do seem surreal, even to me.
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Never heard of. Interesting!
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Thank you 🙂
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I’ve never seen this, so today I learned something new.
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I had seen the leafy liverwort before, but never these out growths.
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How amazing and beautifully captured.
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Thank you 🙂 I was quite amazed to discover these myself.
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Wow! How interesting.
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Thank you 🙂 It was quite exciting for me to find them simply growing in a plant pot 🙂
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