#cursed botany

[mossinformed]

Mosses have teeth : )

So instead of flowers -which came hundreds of millions of years after mosses- mosses have capsules to hold spores. A little hat pops off the top of the capsule and you get these swirly sparkly structures that help scatter spores like a salt shaker! Those are the peristome “teeth”. The word “stoma” in peristome means mouth.

[hatshepsut9]

Help, the trees on this planet are ANNUALS

[ocheeva]

the downside of having a casual interest in botany is that sometimes you learn certain facts and then you suddenly don’t really feel like eating figs anymore even though you used to love them