Plants covered thinly by snow seen in my familiar forest
This is one scene of my familiar forest where I often walk around.
The forest ground was covered a little by snow fallen previous day. Since it's been a warm winter this year, it's convenient to me. If completely covered with snow, I won't be able to observe any living creatures, right?
You can see many green leaves scattering on the ground. They are Fuyu Ichigo(literally, Fuyu=winter, Ichigo=strawberry, Rubus buergeri).


It seems to be refrigerated enough by snow and looks delicious.


This is a capsule (a Jar-shaped structure containing moss spores inside) and its stalk, sticking out from snow. What looks like a pointed tip is called a calyptra of moss. When this calyptra drops off, moss spores will be scattered out from a capsule.

In the next photo, a calyptra is pointed by a red arrow and a capsule is a blue arrow. I think this is the moment when a calyptra is almost coming off from a capsule.
The calyptra seems like a bird's beak, don't you think so?
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