Mastodawn

Röyksopp II

#nature #naturephotography #puffball #fungus #fungi #macro #macrophotography #spores

Röyksopp

(In general when I take nature photographs I try my best to not disturb the subject I am photographing. Here I have made an exception and prodded the puffball with a stick)

#nature #naturephotography #puffball #fungus #fungi #spores #cloud

Dennis Mar 9

An old pear puffball was still full of spores, so of course I gave it a little squish and tried to get a photo of the little cloud erupting out of it. Worked quite well.

#photography #darktable #canon #darktable #mushroom #darktableprocessed #macro #spores #backlight

Paul Houle Dec 28

Fruiting bodies (𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖) of club moss sticking out of the snow in Shindagin Hollow, not really a flowering plant but I'll tag it #bloomscrolling anyway

#photo #photography #snow #plants #clubmoss #bloomscrolling #spores #sporescrolling #macro #winter

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Dec 26

In an extraordinary display of biological resilience, #moss #spores survived for nine months outside the International Space Station. The spores were then returned to Earth, where 86% germinated and began to grow, researchers report Nov 20 in iScience.
The research adds spores of Physcomitrium patens to the list of terrestrial organisms that can survive extended stays in #space. This hardy group includes various species of bacteria, lichens, plant seeds and tardigrades.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moss-spores-survive-nine-months-space

Moss spores survived in space for 9 months

The moss species Physcomitrium patens is the latest organism to survive an extended stay in the vacuum and radiation of space.

Science News

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Richard Rathe Nov 9

@Hagukh

All those brown "hairs" are the #spore containing structures or #sporophytes. The green part consists of male and female #gametophytes. This is very different from how it works with seed-bearing plants. #Spores only contain one set of chromosomes, #seeds have two!

"The haploid gametophyte generation of mosses is the dominant phase of the life cycle. This contrasts with the pattern in all vascular plants (seed plants and pteridophytes), where the diploid sporophyte generation is dominant."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss

#Moss #Mosstodon #Biology