Tendril of native Wild Cucumber (Marah macrocarpus, Cucurbitaceae)
This is a spring-like tendril of Wild Cucumber aka Chilicothe or Manroot (Marah macrocarpus) in the Cucurbitaceae plant family growing over dead stems in the woods. You can see a bit of the growing plant below. The coiled tendrils are neat. If you start at that flat place in the center of the tendril, you can see that they twist clockwise to the left and counterclockwise to the right. You can see more of the plant in my [Next] photo, here. This is my photo for the Macro Mondays group, with the theme of "contraptions". Is this spring-like coil really a contraption? Well, it's certainly a mechanism, so HMM! (San Marcos Pass, 24 January 2017)
Tendril of native Wild Cucumber (Marah macrocarpus, Cucurbitaceae)
This is a spring-like tendril of Wild Cucumber aka Chilicothe or Manroot (Marah macrocarpus) in the Cucurbitaceae plant family growing over dead stems in the woods. You can see a bit of the growing plant below. The coiled tendrils are neat. If you start at that flat place in the center of the tendril, you can see that they twist clockwise to the left and counterclockwise to the right. You can see more of the plant in my [Next] photo, here. This is my photo for the Macro Mondays group, with the theme of "contraptions". Is this spring-like coil really a contraption? Well, it's certainly a mechanism, so HMM! (San Marcos Pass, 24 January 2017)