Tootwort Sprout (Buds and Folded Leaves)
Cut-Leafed Toothwort, March 20, 2006. When the sprout first emerges from the soil, the leaves are folded up along with the buds. The sprout starts off as a reddish color, but becomes darker green with exposure to sunlight--which triggers the formation of chloryphyll. There is a braod-leaved toothwort, which I have so far only seen in northern Michigan, in forests of the upper peninsula.
posted by Carol at 2:03 PM
3 Comments:
Did you place the Oak leaf as a back groung or was the Toothwort laying flat???????
Did you place the Oak leaf as a back groung or was the Toothwort laying flat???????
Mike
The leaf was there, but I moved it a bit to make sure the edge of the leaf was outside the frame. Otherwise it would have looked very strange with the leaf background for just half the frame and some other stuff for the other half.
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