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cuicuit · 1 year

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Sporangium – a dehiscent structure which produce, contain and nurture spores before releasing them when they are mature

#sporangium #spores #bryophytes #biology #botanics #microscopic structure #microscope

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imwilhelm · 2 years

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Observing sporangia morphological structures of Polypody (Polypodium vulgare). How can microscopic biological structures and mechanisms be scaled for more sustainable infrastructure? #fern #fof #spores #sporangium #microscopy #polypody #morphology (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgRMInItuBP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#fern #fof #spores #sporangium #microscopy #polypody #morphology

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botanyshitposts · 1 year

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Whilst I can't help with understanding ferns I can offer you a picture of magnified fern spores that look like little bugs

it is with horror and delight i can inform you that these are not the spores themselves but rather several round clusters (called sori, or one sorus) of sporangium (which are the things that individually look like little bugs) which look like that because they each hold the spores in a little packet sealed like a cursed wet uncrustable whos water-filled edges gradually dry on exposure to air, causing them to shrink until the tension rips the packet open and pulls them back into a tense straight line, at which point said edge cells have lost so much water that air comes flooding in and the uncrustable slams back together and the spores go flying like a catapult

heres a video with soothing music in the background to help counteract the fact that in action they actually do look like uncomfortably writhing bugs.

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and yeah. they just kind of get away with that every day

#they cant keep getting away with it dude. can you imagine.#ferns #asks #plont asks

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microcosmicobservations · 1 year

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Is it just me or do we only ever learn about liverworts when talking about alternation of generation life cycles or the oldest plant lineages? Recently I was looking through my microscope pictures from last summer, and I must have been too excited to collect samples and look at them to bother posting much of it on here because there are a lot of cool pictures that I never shared. Here are some cute liverwort sporophytes that I unwittingly brought home with a wolf's milk slime mold sample. It was my first time ever seeing liverwort sporophytes, which bear the spore capsule (sporangium) at the tip.

Here's the opened spore capsule with my fingers in the background to provide scale. Unlike moss sporophytes, liverwort sporophytes are relatively ephemeral, often collapsing a day after the capsule opens rather than sticking around for weeks or months or years like mosses.

I'm going to be posting more of my backlog of pictures in the coming days, so buckle up!

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#liverwort #sporophyte #microscopic #nature #science

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psikonauti · 2 years

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Katia Lifshin (Israeli, b. 1993)

Sporangium, 2022

Oil on canvas

#Katia Lifshin #upl #va #art #painting

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dwellordream · 1 year

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on a green kick lately so here are some of my fave green paintings

1. Gentiana (Kyung-Soon Park)

2. Take This Fire (Colleen Barry)

3. Old German Folktale (Hermann Hendrich)

4. Sporangium - Katia Lifshin

5. Absinthe (Laurie Lee Brom)

6. Aurora Living (Mia Bergeron)

7. Insomnia (Markus Akesson)

8. Spirit of the Night (John Atkinson Grimshaw)

9. Untitled (Jena Jun)

10. The Green Gown (Thomas Edwin Mostyn)

#color theory #word to the wise

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sizzleissues · 5 months

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chia?

chia ⇢ what’s an inside joke you have with someone else?

I had to sit and think about this one for a long time so I offer you two

One where my friend and I will turn to each other and take whatever word we just heard and say ‘I want to name my child that’. Examples have been ‘~’ pronounced tilde (hers), ‘Cholera’ (mine) and ‘sporangium’ (both).

Another is that one meeting my friend I’ll ask “is Ned dead?” And they’ll reply ‘Ned’s dead’ or ‘Ned not dead’. I will not explain what that means

Get to know me ask game

#sizzle rambles #ask game #anon answered

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thatswhywelovegermany · 2 years

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Halloween-ish Alien?

No, the sporangium of a fern. The vessel in which the spores are produced. This one has alrady opened and released the spores, hence the gap that looks like a mouth. A single spore has remained inside looking like the eye.

The ribbed structure around the upper circumference is a spring that can be tensioned by evaporating water from the cells inbetween. During this process, the upper portion of the sporangium is retracted, forming a structure shaped like a hand holding a ball. When a certain tension is reached, the remaining water in the cells between the elements of the spring cavitates, which means it suddenly forms bubbles. This way, the tension is released and the spores inside the structure are tossed out as if they were thrown away with a hand, contributing to a wider distribution.

#nature #fascinating

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zen-unknown · 1 year

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Ur so good with English?

Name something that rhymes with orange >:)

✨Exactly✨

"Sporange" is the technical term for the sac in some plants that produces and creates spores. It's an old botanical term for "sporangium"

Sporange Orange

Checkmate

#ask #anonymous

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archive-cat · 1 year

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Rhizopus is an example of a mold that produces sporangiospores. Although usually nonpathogenic, it sometimes causes opportunistic wound and respiratory infections in the compromised host. At the end of its sporangiophore is dome-shaped end called a columella that extends into a sac-like structure called a sporangium. Its sporangiospores, typically brown or black, are produced within the sporangium. Anchoring structures called rhizoids are also produced on the vegetative hyphae.

#fact queue

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californiabotanycertification · 2 years

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Polystichum imbricans, Narrowleaf Sword Fern

perennial fern

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terrestrial plant with no flowers or bulbs sporangia present

Herbs reproducing by spores released directly from sporangia, the sporangia variously located [on abaxial leaf face, [LYCOPHYTES and FERNS]

Plant terrestrial l; leaf 1-2 pinnate,; sporangia borne on aerial portion of leaf

Leaves all alike or nearly so, the fertile [sporangium-bearing] blades very similar in size and shape to sterile blades sporangia borne on underside of leaf blade, new leaves generally coiled, unrolling as they develop

Sori borne away from margin on underside of leaf or leaflet, sporangia clustered in distinct sori; indusia present

Sori ± round

Blade without needle-like hairs

Indusium peltate or round-reniform, attached ± in center of sorus , generally present and readily observable in late-season specimens ..... DRYOPTERIDACEAE

- Indusium peltate , centrally attached, without a sinus

- Veins generally free, rarely ± joined; leaf 1–3-pinnate, teeth, generally including bristle-like tips, < 4 mm ..... POLYSTICHUM

-Leaf generally 1-pinnate, rarely to partly 2-pinnate; pinnae generally simple, ± entire to serrate, in Polystichum kruckebergii sometimes 1-lobe

Leaf 10–120(200) cm; pinnae simple

Proximal pinnae ovate to lanceolate , ± = to ± 2/3 longest; stipe generally 1/5–1/2 blade

Stipe base scales lanceolate, ± 2–3 mm wide, those above proximal pinnae generally < 1 mm wide, falling early; pinnae ± in 1 plane or not; indusium ± entire to toothed ..... P. imbricans

DESCRIPTION

Rhizome: generally suberect to erect, often stout

Stipe/petiole: generally 1/5--1/2 of blade Stout, firm, generally densely scaly, base scales +- 2--3 mm wide, lanceolate, those above proximal pinnae generally, ×-section with many round vascular strands in an arc.

Blade: narrow-lanceolate to -elliptic, 1-pinnate,, proximal pinnae reduced or not, thin to leathery, scaly, veins generally free, rarely +- jointed; pinna bases often wider acroscopically; teeth, generally including bristle-like tip

Sporangia: sori round; indusium peltate [0 or reniform], sinus 0. indusium +- entire to toothed

SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION

https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=17681#null

https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=POIM

https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=10784

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/58763-Polystichum-imbricans

https://calphotos.berkeley.edu

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeFidZIrKxT/

https://wildflowersearch.org/search

Jepson Herbarium Youtube Polystichum Munitum

#Polystichum imbricans #Narrowleaf Sword Fern #polystichum #shield ferns #dryopteridaceae #wood fern #polypodiales #filicopsida #tracheophyta #pteridophyta #cliff sword fern #california native plants #california native #ca native #fern #botany #pinna looks a sword with a hilt

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speculative-world · 2 years

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alvoivouno, more commonly called tuber cacti, are small sedereamischos which were farmed by ◗ta for the tubers, they tend to make a large tuber underneath the cacti and make a few smaller ones around the root system, this large root lets them regenerate their moss faster than if they lacked it, they reproduce similar to telluric verns, growing a sporangium in the centre of the tuber cactus which launch spores, the tubers are commonly eaten but the core of the root remains which lets the plant live, this adaptation is caused by making the core too thick and tough to be eaten with ease, alongside not being worth being eaten considering the low nutrition count, if you have any questions whatsoever about this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

#speculative biology #speculative botany #speculative evolution #speculative planet #speculative world #spec bio #spec botany #spec evo #spec planet #spec world #ngiu◗#exobiology #alvoivouno #tuber cacti

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darksouls2yuri · 2 years

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these guys are so cute i wanna kiss them on their little sporangium

#txt #mucoromycota fungi ily...... pics taken from the mucoromycota wiki page

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ladyarkytiorofdunans · 2 years

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GUYS! THERE IS A WORD THAT RHYMES WITH ORANGE!!!!!!

There is a word in the English language that does in face rhyme with “Orange”. The word is “Sporange” it’s an alternative form of the word “Sporangium” which is a botanical term meaning “Spore Case”.

#nothing rhymes with orange #something rhymes with orange #my world has been flipped on its head

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urbancaveevacuation · 1 month

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learning about gametophyte and sporophyte forms in seeded plants and prof was talking about gymnosperms (for context I can't visualize in my head) and he was talking about how the sporophyte creates a spore, it stays in the sporangium, develops into a gametophyte!!! then the gametophyte develops an egg!!!! WHILE STILL INSIDE THE SPOROPHYTE lshdkshksgkwgejd and I was like holy shit this is incredible I wonder what it looks like (I also took an edible before class) and then the next slide HAD A PICTURE SKGEMDHKAHSN i litraly felt like I was in the presence of a celebrity

#botanical #biology #plants #gymnosperms

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rainymorninlady · 1 month

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Mature sporangium of a Mucor sp. fungus.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

#fungus #fungi #blue

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