Urban Nature Pictures 4/10

[urbpan]

Moss.

Alternate title: Unidentified structures on some moss growing on a puddingstone outcropping on Schoolmaster hill in Franklin Park. This was one of two pictures I took during yesterday's Urban Nature Walk. Here's the other:



I'm looking forward to Alexis' pictures from the walk.

Comments

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Pretty moss!

Unidentified structures- protonoma/gametophore?!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Gav.
After googling those two words, it looks to me like the structures are the sterile bases that the sporangia grow from. The sporangia have broken off and blown away.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Moss is neat- loved the TRIALS OF LIFE episode where Sir David showed a patch of moss to be a mini-jungle of springtails and predatory mites...