I find it fascinating, but also a little unsettling, that I can moss leaves are one cell thick but I can still see them with the naked eye.
There’s a whole world down there, that i never really thought about until a week ago.
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i’m not a book person, but Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses is a really nice read!
Eggs are also single cells visible to the naked eye.
great news for fans of forbidden foods: it’s edible!
If you are talking about like, chicken eggs - no they are not. There is a single cell, the actual fertilized egg from which new life will grow, that is inside what we call an “egg” that we buy, which is protection and nutrients.
It’s kind of like the seed of a plant, which is also not just a single cell, but a nutrient carrier for initial development.
So most of the cell is tasty food, what of it?
I’ve never seen a moss like this, but apparently it’s a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiomnium_affine
I thought one of the characteristic features of moss was that it didn’t have vascular stems.
Ah HA, you’ve fallen for the same trap i did. The veins in leaves are actually described as “vein-like” and are purely structural. Likewise, the stems are structural, mosses are non-vascular
You learn something new every day!
Ologies podcast did an episode on moss and it made me fall in love with the world of bryology! Its a fantastic episode of a fantastic show, highly recommend.
for antennaPod ☞ Ologies with Alie Ward https://feeds.simplecast.com/FO6kxYGj
Cool! Subscribed!
Moss is neat!
I strongly recommend you (or anyone really) read (or listen to) Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The audiobook is narrated by the author, and without hearing it I genuinely don’t think I would have had the same appreciation for the incredible diversity of mosses and other small plants that were in the field I live by this year.
thier also gametophyte(haploid) rather than sporophyte(diploid) stage of most advanced plants. they are only in the sporphytes when they have thier reproductive structures.
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Also blocking you cause spam is garbage.
Very classy, you see a foreign language and call it spam and garbage.
No I checked this account’s other comments. They spam in English and this is the only German comment they have made. Almost looks like a glitched out bot. But probably not.
Also blocking you for coming at me with bullshit accusations of xenophobia.
Do that if you’d like, I didn’t accuse you of anything. I can’t know that you were referring to their comment history and not the comment asking for added alt text if you don’t post that.
No clue what you are saying but I do know what alt text means. Did you not even read the post? It literally describes what we are looking at.
@Irisfreundin@troet.cafe is on Mastodon, where the text isn’t displayed inline. If you’re on the Lemmy webpage, you can click the rainbow-colored Fediverse icon next to their username to see what they see.
That sounds like a mastodon issue. Maybe they should fix that.
It’s more an issue with how the federation is implemented. Mastodon and Lemmy simply have different post formats, which makes it difficult to just translate between them. And I believe, Lemmy has code to fill things into the ActivityPub messages in a specific format for Mastodon, so it would need to be changed in Lemmy.
I see
I am not
Well, here’s the direct link to what they see: https://troet.cafe/@Irisfreundin/114564100670157086
Ah, so there is a link for them to view the post regardless….
