Morning Eye Candy: Ferns in a Jar
Posted in Photography on February 24 2011, by Plant Talk
What you see are teeny, tiny proto ferns. Ferns have a two-stage lifecycle, and these little gametophyte-stage ferns will soon produce sporophytes that will grow into the beautiful, fanned greenery we’re more used to seeing.
Fern Gametophytes (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
