Natural_Selections
Raindrops on Moss Leaflets
A Midwinter Hokku
Moss plants busy
Absorbing greenhouse gases;
Let's plant more plants!
Highly magnified individual moss plants (male gametophytes) with raindrops on the tiny leaflets. The raindrops facilitate the movement of the sperm in search of an egg!
Mosses are seedless, nonvascular plants and do not produce flowers nor seeds, but they do produce sperm, eggs, and spores. Also, as plants do, they remove CO2 from our atmosphere and give us oxygen gas in return. So, as the hokku says, let's grow more trees, flowers, and forbs, to absorb the CO2 we're vomiting into our atmosphere!
Moss life cycle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA6-YbsiMhI
The importance of mosses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVeBSKK88Ig&t=1s
Green River Bluffs Trail, Mammoth Cave National Park, KY, USA.
Raindrops on Moss Leaflets
A Midwinter Hokku
Moss plants busy
Absorbing greenhouse gases;
Let's plant more plants!
Highly magnified individual moss plants (male gametophytes) with raindrops on the tiny leaflets. The raindrops facilitate the movement of the sperm in search of an egg!
Mosses are seedless, nonvascular plants and do not produce flowers nor seeds, but they do produce sperm, eggs, and spores. Also, as plants do, they remove CO2 from our atmosphere and give us oxygen gas in return. So, as the hokku says, let's grow more trees, flowers, and forbs, to absorb the CO2 we're vomiting into our atmosphere!
Moss life cycle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA6-YbsiMhI
The importance of mosses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVeBSKK88Ig&t=1s
Green River Bluffs Trail, Mammoth Cave National Park, KY, USA.