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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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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eggs are also single cells visible to the naked eye.

[–] zenforyen@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

So most of the cell is tasty food, what of it?

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

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[–] kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

You learn something new every day!

[–] 7EP6vuI@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

i'm not a book person, but Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses is a really nice read!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

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.