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out door moss. spore bearing organs...i think

Mark Evans

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here's a slice of moss I got from outdoors. i've looked at moss and liverworts pages on line, and from what I can gather the long thing is it's spore bearing part. :shifty: I'm not the best on technical and factual stuff.

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Yep, those are called sporophytes. Nice detailed photo :) Did you put the black background there when taking the photo or...?
 
I have the most expensive studio in the world....not. :lol:

aquaticmaniac said:
Did you put the black background there when taking the photo or...?

i've got a cheap old photo holder which is just above A3 size. point one light @ the subject and that's it leah. :D

nothing fancy with these magnifications....oooo, the box is from gucci! :lol: not really.

Thanks for the info on the sporophytes. ;)

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Just an update on this thread.

These images are from the same clump of moss. It's endured wind, rain, severe ice and snow.

The clump.

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some close ups.

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I'm amazed at how they've changed form.

thanks for looking.

mark
 
some more to the series.

The first 2 images are of a different moss. They all seem to be chucking these organs out now.

for some reason, i cant get swans out of my head. maybe its how they look.

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the water droplets were to keep them moist.

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The second organ is my fave. lovely colours don't you think? also the first image was 'dry' notice the end is open.

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the second, i sprayed to keep moist and over a period of 60 seconds it closed up. This maybe a great chance to doa macro HD vid, then increase the play time. maybe like time-lapse.

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