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| Even the ocean is becalmed. |
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| Barnacles and frost on a log |
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| Frost and stonecrop |
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| Zooming in. |
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| Zooming out. |
I think this is spreading stonecrop, Sedum divergens. In warmer weather, the leaves and stems are green to red; there's still a hint of green in more sheltered bits.
do the yellowed stems recover their green in the spring? Yesterday I was amazed at how brown both the (Common) Junipers and (White - Thuja) Cedars on our land were - I know they come back in the spring. I wonder if the chlorophyll is overlaid by other pigments, or if there's an actual loss of chloroplasts, which are then replaced in the spring?
ReplyDeleteWe have a variety of stonecrop on our cliff, not sure which one. Went out to the car yesterday and it was covered in frost. I wonder if my impromptu plastic bag "greenhouse" is keeping my lettuce growing at the cabin. I'll find out when we return in two weeks. - Margy
ReplyDeleteFred, I don't remember them being yellow there before. I'll look at them again in the spring. Interesting question about the chlorophyll. I think I read something about that; I'll look it up.
ReplyDeleteMargy, lettuce is pretty hardy. I've kept it going under pop bottle "greenhouses" through several cold snaps. (Not in Delta; the slugs there kept going, too.)