Moss in my garde
Jul 15, 2018 • 10:30 AM UTC
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I located some moss plants growing in a shady corner of my garden.
On foldscoping, I could make out these were moss protonema (i.e. juvenile moss plants).
On germination spores of mosses form green filamentous leafy structures that usually lak midrib. These are called Primary protonema . These then give way to slightly big leafy structures called Secondary protonema which are attached to the soil by means of rhizoids.
This is what I had learnt in my Botany class, so was thrilled to see it in my slide.
On germination spores of mosses form green filamentous leafy structures that usually lak midrib. These are called Primary protonema . These then give way to slightly big leafy structures called Secondary protonema which are attached to the soil by means of rhizoids.
This is what I had learnt in my Botany class, so was thrilled to see it in my slide.
Above are pics of Primary Protonema and a filamentous leaf of the same
Secondary Protonema and its leaf under foldscope
Capsule -like structures seen arising from the young plants
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