zozo
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Months ago, could be closer to a year, actualy forgot.. But doesn't matter.. Anyway, the story goes this plant is a Prothallus from the Terrestrial fern Lomaropsis sp. Genetic research did put it closest to L. lineata, but that is just a researchers educated guess.. Till now nobody could get it to germinate and confirm it's true origine. I did put it to the test in a bottle on a layer of sand and bits of sphagnum, closed it, and sprayed it now and then to simulate rain whit the hope it might do what it reportedly till now never did. All that started as said close to a year ago.
This morning i noticed something that nocked me out of my shoes.. I saw very tiny simular shaped leaves sticking up on little tiny stems. And that's something a prothallus doesn't have? Do you see it??
Seen from above
Drained a bit water out to have a better look again. I'm growing and trimming Lomariopsis cf. lineata for years now submersed.. Never ever seen it make something looking like this, leaves on a stem.
Could it be true, is that a little baby fern growing?? Is it actualy realy happening? Did it manage to germinate and grow a little sporophyte?? Or is this pure change taking me for a ride and it's a different spore germinating which sneaked in with the sphagnum. But it definitively looks like a little baby fern.
This morning i noticed something that nocked me out of my shoes.. I saw very tiny simular shaped leaves sticking up on little tiny stems. And that's something a prothallus doesn't have? Do you see it??
Seen from above
Drained a bit water out to have a better look again. I'm growing and trimming Lomariopsis cf. lineata for years now submersed.. Never ever seen it make something looking like this, leaves on a stem.
Could it be true, is that a little baby fern growing?? Is it actualy realy happening? Did it manage to germinate and grow a little sporophyte?? Or is this pure change taking me for a ride and it's a different spore germinating which sneaked in with the sphagnum. But it definitively looks like a little baby fern.