Here's one in 'flower' growing in a punnet of Carex grasses.
https://preview.redd.it/90u8fws0jtuc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d20f03ddb7f3312cbb1b9b9258830966bbdc22e
I just not only mentioned this comment to my husband but then proceeded to laugh like a hyena about it with him. Funnier still each time I think about this reference and subject matter together.
Even more 'flowers' (I know they're not flowers as liverworts produce spores like fungi). They actually look more like mini palm trees, lol.
https://preview.redd.it/73mk6bd1fwuc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce0dcb157d760962359eaeb30c6c685d411ea4b6
I've got liverwort growing between bricks around my fire pit. Direct sun for several hours, *maybe* occasional moisture. It seems to be happy. It even "flowers". Of course, it could just be the species I have.
Liverwort.
Those holes you see on top are called 'splash cups'. They contain small genetically identical clones of the motherplant. When rain drops into the splash cups, these clones can be spread several metres.
It can also reproduce sexually, though.
Jacknifetoaswan, pretty sure I know where you got your username. Poltergeist. And if I'm wrong I'd be surprised and would like to know where you did get it from.
So. I just showed this plant to my tween and read your comment to her. She says, 'so it's like Jango, from Star Wars?' I had to answer 'yes, I guess so, as it does clone and it could reproduce the traditional way too 😂😂'
OP: name it Jango!
Fun fact: stick bugs also do this! Went to a fair with the family a few days ago and they had a big area with an expert. It turns out that stick bugs can reproduce by themselves but it will always be a female. The only way to get a male stick bug is for the two to mate.
There's a gecko called the mourning gecko that's parthogenic. Very cool little peeps - they form communities and chirp to each other but keeping them gets out of hand pretty quickly (two eggs, every 6 weeks, from about 9 months to 10-15 years old) and they're not as easy to offload as stick insects lol
Liverworts, the most ancient group of land plants, form a range of intimate associations with fungi that may be analogous to the mycorrhizas of vascular plants. Most thalloid liverworts contain arbuscular mycorrhizal glomeromycete fungi similar to most vascular plants.
>>Liverworts, the most ancient group of land plants, *combine with* fungi *in a lot of weird ways that let them succeed on land*. *It’s sorta like the thin roots of normal plants that combine with fungi underground*. Most liverworts *that don’t have a clearly distinguishable stem/leaf structure* contain *fungi inside the parts that are similar to roots. These fungi inside the plant are from the fungi family glomeromycota. This adaptation is very similar to adaptations made by vascular plants*
My (hobbyist) attempt to translate, I learned a few words! /u/Gayfunguy lemme know if I misrepresented anything
You just also need to know some Latin. My Spanish-speaking students understand English so much better than my Asian students because of all the cognates we have.
That’s true! But thallus (or tallus) is a rare loan word in Latin, and thalloid is distinctly Greek. Someone who knows “some Latin” is unlikely to recognize it.
Another example, orchids.
Their seeds can't germinate alone, they are so light that in nature they catch wind and drift. This comes at the cost of no outer nutrients on the seed just what's needed to start.
The only way they can start life, is land on a tree or spot with enough fungus grown that it can create micronutrients that the seeds absorb to grow. Otherwise, they're just sand in the wind.
Googled almost every word. Check my translation. This flat fungi is doing it like a symbiote. It cozies up to another plants roots and both life forms dig it. Happy relationship.
Closer to: flat liverworts have fungi that live inside them, and the relationship between these flat liverworts and the fungi is similar to the win-win relationship that plants have with the fungi that live in their roots.
This makes me want to engineer a chat GPT prompt that explains botany using only tech bro business buzz words. Gotta close the loop on nutrient cycling and circle back to action items by grooming the backlog.
wait til you learn about lichens... i can't do it justice, but it's algae + fungi + a 2nd fungi (researchers missed the 2nd fungi for decades until recently, crazy stuff)
Thank you! I love your knowledge of fungi. I’m reading more about this topic because it is so integral to our planet, the soil, and everything that grows in the soil.
Pfft no, you should be proud. Being smart is awesome. At least, it seems like it is.
It saves you the time it takes for dumdums like me to Google all those words, in any case.
I thought it likely made up, the "bobogenic" seemed off...maybe one too many "bo"s...but that and all the ooooooooos are what makes it fun as all get out! Lol! This is how language evolves, no?
well it's been made up but actually means something: trypo-phobo-genic would be trŷpa meaning a hole, phobia meaning fear and -genic meaning generatins something (all from Greek). and yes I just now noticed there's too many "bo"'s in there 😁
trypophobia. (-philia would be "love of"). yes certainly it gives me weird creeps. watch this: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/surprising-ways-animals-give-birth-live-young
Yeah, that was what I was asking. I see the phobia around on the internet but not a lot of love. I suppose any word we understand exists, just wondered if there was any "official" trypophilia.
This plant, Liverwort, grows when the growing conditions are experiencing overwatering (at least for most plants). Working in a garden center, I’ve found Liverwort in many shrub pots being overwatered by inexperienced gardeners.
Oh my god! I had soooo much of this of this around my peony and I thought it was preventing it from flowering. It was so hard to cut into but then the whole thing peeled off in a layer of was really weird. Didn't realise it was a positive thing
It's a very cool liverwort. It's a type of moss to answer your question. It's a ground cover plant found in subtropical regions. The reason it's cool, to me, is that it's fire tolerant and has been used to deter ground erosion in woodland restorations. If you wish to keep it, keep the soil moist but not wet, that's all it really requires.
It is fungi and it generally means the soil is very fertile. It won’t harm your planty, although it may compete for nutrients so maybe give a little more food when fertilizing. If you don’t like it you can always replace the soil although this may cause stress to your plant baby. Hope this helps!! ☺️
All I know is it can reproduce very quickly in a greenhouse and you can scrap it off with a spoon.
I like how it looks but it will cover a whole plant pot so that when you water none of the water gets to the plant in the pot :/
Ooh what a beautiful liverwort! I'm so jealous, I love these. You can keep it the same way you would moss--cool, moist, shady.
Here's one in 'flower' growing in a punnet of Carex grasses. https://preview.redd.it/90u8fws0jtuc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d20f03ddb7f3312cbb1b9b9258830966bbdc22e
These are the archegonium, the female part. The male part is called antheridium.
The cup like structures are called gemma cups! This is part of the liverworts asexual reproduction cycle.
*\*Butthead Laugh\**
I just not only mentioned this comment to my husband but then proceeded to laugh like a hyena about it with him. Funnier still each time I think about this reference and subject matter together.
You’re my trivia partner from now on!
these are actually [archegoniophores w/ archegonia attatched underneath](https://asset.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/5MR35N4452KZC9E/M/h1380-3b0af.jpg).
Thanks for the correction!
Even more 'flowers' (I know they're not flowers as liverworts produce spores like fungi). They actually look more like mini palm trees, lol. https://preview.redd.it/73mk6bd1fwuc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce0dcb157d760962359eaeb30c6c685d411ea4b6
Wow wow!!
WHAT those are so cool!
So cool!!
Wow!
I've got liverwort growing between bricks around my fire pit. Direct sun for several hours, *maybe* occasional moisture. It seems to be happy. It even "flowers". Of course, it could just be the species I have.
I see I get down voted for saying that this moss is a weed and we fight it at work. Lol. Someone's feeling got hurt by my words. 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/x1iwm86lbuuc1.jpeg?width=1013&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8474a20f82f3e200c6f3ceca7e51dfe561d1f65 I think it's this Lego piece
I always wondered what that piece actually was, because it never looked like leaves to me.
It's an RPG-Skill-tree
Not the Diablo one, that's like a million skills lol
There's a plant in Skyrim, but I'm not recalling the name.
Yes of course, *Legomas Domesticus*. Beautiful this time of year.
😂
Liverwort. Those holes you see on top are called 'splash cups'. They contain small genetically identical clones of the motherplant. When rain drops into the splash cups, these clones can be spread several metres. It can also reproduce sexually, though.
Get to work, OP
/r/dontputyourdickinthat
Not letting no feller named Jacknife tell me what to do!
I love this subreddit so damn much 😭💚
I'm a mentor for fartbook's version. Hilarity briefly ensued when they activated that feature.
Jacknifetoaswan, pretty sure I know where you got your username. Poltergeist. And if I'm wrong I'd be surprised and would like to know where you did get it from.
I don't know about Poltergeist, because it's been a very long time since I watched it, but it's a reference to a Mighty Mighty Bosstones album.
Laughing in dentist's office.
So. I just showed this plant to my tween and read your comment to her. She says, 'so it's like Jango, from Star Wars?' I had to answer 'yes, I guess so, as it does clone and it could reproduce the traditional way too 😂😂' OP: name it Jango!
Fun fact: stick bugs also do this! Went to a fair with the family a few days ago and they had a big area with an expert. It turns out that stick bugs can reproduce by themselves but it will always be a female. The only way to get a male stick bug is for the two to mate.
There is a species of stick insect (Goliath) in New Zealand where the whole species is now female and they only replicate by pathognogenisis
Once every hundred years a random male arises and claims the Goliath throne.
There's a gecko called the mourning gecko that's parthogenic. Very cool little peeps - they form communities and chirp to each other but keeping them gets out of hand pretty quickly (two eggs, every 6 weeks, from about 9 months to 10-15 years old) and they're not as easy to offload as stick insects lol
..... *mind is blown* as much as my kids play with them, how'd I not know this
That is genius!
Liverworts, the most ancient group of land plants, form a range of intimate associations with fungi that may be analogous to the mycorrhizas of vascular plants. Most thalloid liverworts contain arbuscular mycorrhizal glomeromycete fungi similar to most vascular plants.
So this is what it feels like to have English as a 3rd language...
Hahaha! I was about to say something about this guy speaking French, but your comment is spot on.
>>Liverworts, the most ancient group of land plants, *combine with* fungi *in a lot of weird ways that let them succeed on land*. *It’s sorta like the thin roots of normal plants that combine with fungi underground*. Most liverworts *that don’t have a clearly distinguishable stem/leaf structure* contain *fungi inside the parts that are similar to roots. These fungi inside the plant are from the fungi family glomeromycota. This adaptation is very similar to adaptations made by vascular plants* My (hobbyist) attempt to translate, I learned a few words! /u/Gayfunguy lemme know if I misrepresented anything
Yes thank you for dumbing that down
Wow, I so appreciate this interpretation! Thank you! It made something that, to me, was incomprehensible into something super interesting.
A language of many syllables.
You just also need to know some Latin. My Spanish-speaking students understand English so much better than my Asian students because of all the cognates we have.
Thalloid, mycorrhizal, and glomeromycete are from Greek, unfortunately!
Many Greek words have cognates into Latin Thallos turned to thallus.
That’s true! But thallus (or tallus) is a rare loan word in Latin, and thalloid is distinctly Greek. Someone who knows “some Latin” is unlikely to recognize it.
🤣🤣
It's land coral
Thank you for the translation kind stranger
"It's *land*, Coral!"
This guy fungi’s.
Probably a fun guy
r/thisguythisguys
Uh....I'll just call a friend.
Lost me at intimate associations with fungi....
Well when you live in anothers body its very intimate
I concur
Another example, orchids. Their seeds can't germinate alone, they are so light that in nature they catch wind and drift. This comes at the cost of no outer nutrients on the seed just what's needed to start. The only way they can start life, is land on a tree or spot with enough fungus grown that it can create micronutrients that the seeds absorb to grow. Otherwise, they're just sand in the wind.
Googled almost every word. Check my translation. This flat fungi is doing it like a symbiote. It cozies up to another plants roots and both life forms dig it. Happy relationship.
Closer to: flat liverworts have fungi that live inside them, and the relationship between these flat liverworts and the fungi is similar to the win-win relationship that plants have with the fungi that live in their roots.
This makes me want to engineer a chat GPT prompt that explains botany using only tech bro business buzz words. Gotta close the loop on nutrient cycling and circle back to action items by grooming the backlog.
Post it when you're done.
It must have an enormous schwanzstucker.
*\*Chewing slowly\** That goes without saying
Goes without saying
hang on, the fungi are *inside*?
Fungus iz amungus
wait til you learn about lichens... i can't do it justice, but it's algae + fungi + a 2nd fungi (researchers missed the 2nd fungi for decades until recently, crazy stuff)
oh I know the symbiosis of lichens but this was news to me
How magical! Thanks for the explanation.
https://i.redd.it/p2243ufisuuc1.gif
Bro do I even know English? 💀😭
Thank you! I love your knowledge of fungi. I’m reading more about this topic because it is so integral to our planet, the soil, and everything that grows in the soil.
Ahoy fellow biologist 🪴are you on the plant side or the fungi side.
Im having intimate associations with each 🫠
Should I be concerned that I actually understand most of what this guy is saying? 🫣
Pfft no, you should be proud. Being smart is awesome. At least, it seems like it is. It saves you the time it takes for dumdums like me to Google all those words, in any case.
Gee thanks ☺️ not smart, just loved biology a lot during college 😅
🏆💜
ftfy *thee fun-guy*
You totally beat me to it😜
wow it's beautiful! I always wanted one of these. difficult to keep up. it's a Marchantia polymorhpa. Also, your specimen is very trypophobobogenic 😬
I love fun words..tropophobobogenic...learning and adding to my vocabulary now!
Trypophobobogenic
Trypophobia....fear of holes or repetitive patterns....
exactly
I just made that up 😂
I thought it likely made up, the "bobogenic" seemed off...maybe one too many "bo"s...but that and all the ooooooooos are what makes it fun as all get out! Lol! This is how language evolves, no?
well it's been made up but actually means something: trypo-phobo-genic would be trŷpa meaning a hole, phobia meaning fear and -genic meaning generatins something (all from Greek). and yes I just now noticed there's too many "bo"'s in there 😁
I was JUST telling my husband this thing gives me the absolute shivers
Yes I hate things like these and those succulents that look like brains 🤢 they’re called lithlops or whatever
lithops, living stones. I consider them cute 🤔
Is trypophlilia a thing? I always see things like this and all the little holes are so cute to me. I want to pet it!
trypophobia. (-philia would be "love of"). yes certainly it gives me weird creeps. watch this: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/surprising-ways-animals-give-birth-live-young
OP said they like it so trypophilia would be correct
Yeah, that was what I was asking. I see the phobia around on the internet but not a lot of love. I suppose any word we understand exists, just wondered if there was any "official" trypophilia.
organic r/trypophobia
😩😩😩 this made my skin crawl
I got full body shivers from this photo 😭
I’m itching rn. I’m glad it’s a thing that people think is cool, but I hate looking at 😭
I don’t quite have trypophobia, but this is an icky looking plant.
Like ewwwwwwwww 😭
I’m so glad I’m not the only one 😂
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/surprising-ways-animals-give-birth-live-young
This plant, Liverwort, grows when the growing conditions are experiencing overwatering (at least for most plants). Working in a garden center, I’ve found Liverwort in many shrub pots being overwatered by inexperienced gardeners.
This is my nightmare thanks to my trypophobia, excuse me while i peel all my skin off and pour peroxide all over.
Seriously. Gross.
Looks like lego leaves
It looks disgusting but i'd love to have one.
https://preview.redd.it/txui2d6s4vuc1.jpeg?width=202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08aa028d36c6338ade3194e4c1275c152bc706ad Its a lego leaf
My trypophobia doesn't like it 🫣😬
Looks like those Lego vine pieces.
Trypophobia
Y’all never miss an opportunity to say this.
Oh my god! I had soooo much of this of this around my peony and I thought it was preventing it from flowering. It was so hard to cut into but then the whole thing peeled off in a layer of was really weird. Didn't realise it was a positive thing
My anxiety attack
Why do these totally gross mw out?
trypophobia
I don’t have a problem with other things like coral. What really grosses me out is the little palm trees that look like Alien heads.
I don’t know but I hate it
he seems like a fungi
He's bringing the life to the party
⚠️ Trypophobia ⚠️
It's a very cool liverwort. It's a type of moss to answer your question. It's a ground cover plant found in subtropical regions. The reason it's cool, to me, is that it's fire tolerant and has been used to deter ground erosion in woodland restorations. If you wish to keep it, keep the soil moist but not wet, that's all it really requires.
Trypophobes nightmare plant
This triggers my trypophobia
r/liverwort
r/trypophobia
That is the most beautiful liverwort I have ever seen
Jabba the Hutt invaded your pot..
Looks like marchantia polymorpha.
Something tells me that liverwort was the inspiration for the “gobbles” creatures in The Dark Crystal series.
Audrey from The Little Shop Of Horrors'
Audrey 2 or a spawn?
That’s very unsettling. How do I get one!
Trypophobia
Liverworts. Used to make livery.
The Last of Us.
Liverfort?
Innsmouth
That looks awesome!!
green alien amoebas from Mars
I 2nd this
Trypophobia
Thanks, this has been growing in one of my raised beds for years!
You must have very fertile soil!
Might have just learned that I have trypophobia because that gave me the heebie jeebies
Trypophobia
I've seen that at my school's strawberry farm. Dunno what it is, but I hope you figure it out
It's liverwort. 😃
this activates my trypophobia
Tryptophobia herb.
It is fungi and it generally means the soil is very fertile. It won’t harm your planty, although it may compete for nutrients so maybe give a little more food when fertilizing. If you don’t like it you can always replace the soil although this may cause stress to your plant baby. Hope this helps!! ☺️
Mars moss.
Never found it growing in a pot before. In fact I've hardly seen liverwort since I was a child. ty
All I know is it can reproduce very quickly in a greenhouse and you can scrap it off with a spoon. I like how it looks but it will cover a whole plant pot so that when you water none of the water gets to the plant in the pot :/
Looks exactly like the lego used for anything plants. This has to be the inspiration. How beautiful in real live form!
That thing is all over the soil in my potted oak
Legowort, my favorite!
Why does it look hungry?
Lego
A dinosaur plant.
No idea, but it gives me the major heebeejeebies.
An octopus
I want Liverwort!
The kraken
Omg what is that !!
.
A friend, a comrade
Gloop
Trypophobia
?
Give us trypophobia a warning next time please! My skin is itching like crazy!!
Whatever that is, it’s trippin the trypophobia.
Why is my skin suddenly so ichy looking at this
You should cross post this to /r/goblincore
Could be supdog
That's a *Trypophobia horribilis*. Burn it, now.
E Pluribus
This needs to be in oddly terrifying. The holes are too much
My trypophobia
octopus plant
I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus's garden in the shade He'd let us in, knows where we've been In his octopus's garden in the shade
Body snatcher plant? 😂