this is so magical, it looks like little plants begin to grow and thrive at the bottom
this is a very common thing for mosses!! they’ve made themselves so resistant to water loss that they can squeeze out all intercellular water in the dry season, hang out like that for months or however long it takes for water to come back to their environment, and then ‘wake up’ when they can replenish their cells and resume photosynthesis!! a fun thing to try is to dry out a moss and then drip water on it and watch it come back to life!!
Tag: plants
artists who draw botanical and lichenological illustrations are stronger than any us marine
#this is specifically about lichens and mosses but applies to all plants honestly
Informal Ranked Difficulty of Botanical* Illustration subjects:
Entry Level: Fruits and vegetables you can regularly buy at the grocery store, plants that are typical of thier type, A Single Bloom And Two Leaves ™,
Intermediate: Uncommon and complex fruits and vegetables, Orchids that you weren’t gonna show to anyone who actually knows about orchids, plants typical of an uncommon type, Basic seed-to-furiting life cycle of common crops.
Hard Mode: The Whole Plant And Notable Features ™, Anything that involves miscroscopy, diseased or dead specimens, reconstructing from the paper’s notes and the one really sad dead specimen they sent along, Mushrooms.
Masterclass: Whole-ass Tree, Orchids you show actual Orchid People, In-depth analysis of common grocery store crops, Carnivorous Plants, flowers that are really sixty bajillion teeny flowers at once, grasses.
Actual Witchcraft: LICHENS, nonvascular plants, fungi that are not mushrooms, multi-species interactions, plants that are actually illegal, POLLEN, extinct plants.
DEALS WERE MADE WITH UNHOLY POWERS OF DARKNESS IN ORDER TO RENDER THESE RIGHT: Seaweeds and Algae.
*Fungi lived right there too so they’re invited to the party.
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