Following on from a previous blog, these female reproductive structures of the Common Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha subsp ruderalis) are now showing the white cotton candy-like sporophytes beneath the umbrella-like archegonial heads. These are the spore capsules which when released may germinate into new plants.
And all this going on in a small plant pot with only moss (those orange structures forming part of the background) and this liverwort.
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Rear garden, Staffordshire, England. May 2017.
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Fun plants. A new one to me.
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Thank you, Lisa 🙂
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You’re so right – they look like mini-palms! I can almost hear the breaking waves…
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🙂
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What a splendid miniature world. Lovely shots.
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Thank you, Belinda 🙂 I might not ever get to see this again, so I thought I would get as many shots in as I could 🙂
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Brilliant Macro’s
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Thank you, Aspaai 🙂
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Those are fascinating and quite beautiful Pete! So dainty with their little fingers, I’ve never seen them before.
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Thank you, Jude :). Last year I bought a Cordyline, and as a bonus I got this liverwort growing in the pot with it. I removed some of it and put it in a pot of its own and now this is the result, which was quite a surprise amd new to me.
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Very interesting little plant. They do look like palm trees. The fluffy white seed pods are pretty.
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I was surprised to find these umbrella-like growths in my plant pot in the first place, and then to discover the white fluffyness beneath was a bonus 🙂
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Nice surprise for sure.
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This is magical.
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Thank you 🙂
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Lovely pics and how amazing. Great to capture the fluffy spore petticoat too.
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Thank you, Carol 🙂 It was quite a delight to come across these, fluffy petticoat and all 🙂
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These are gorgeous, Pete. Such lovely images!
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Thank you, Annie 🙂 Seeing these have to be the highlight of my year in the natural world so far 🙂
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I wish you many more highlights to come!
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Wow – gorgeous!
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Thank you, Sumyanna 🙂
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