Where Garden Fairy Dwells
by Felix Lai
Title
Where Garden Fairy Dwells
Artist
Felix Lai
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Photograph - Photograph
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This photo captures a beautiful fallen orchid resting on a bed of green moss. It reminds me of the fairy tales which I read when I was a child. To me, fairies are delicate creatures flying around flowers and resting on mosses. That fallen orchid flower is symbolic of a sleeping fairy!!
Mosses are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations. The individual plants are usually composed of simple leaves that are generally only one cell thick, attached to a stem that may be branched or unbranched and has only a limited role in conducting water and nutrients. Although some species have conducting tissues, these are generally poorly developed and structurally different from similar tissue found in vascular plants. Mosses do not have seeds and after fertilisation develop sporophytes with unbranched stalks topped with single capsules containing spores. They are typically 0.2–10 cm tall, though some species are much larger. Dawsonia, the tallest moss in the world, can grow to 50 cm in height.
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May 19th, 2017
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