I appreciate your assistance with identifying
a few of the strange things i'm finding in the Nature
at the Farm ....
Here's another one ....
it's clear and liquid-ey
and seems to be attached to new roots of this groundcover.
?
Mahalo for the help!
Aloha Nui Loa
You're picture doesn't enlarge, but it looks to me like a water droplet gathered on the new root. If it's a ground cover plant, it most likely will be close to the ground and the leaves will help keep in moisture, I imagine your climate is very humid anyway. The plant most likely gathers dew or rain to help the venturing root to the ground so it doesn't dry out.
Aloha, Wallaby1!
Thank you for your reply!
I don't think it's a water droplet,
as they can be about 1/2"
and the clear sack-type thing stays together
and i have actually transported them,
(not easily)
have other photos, will check.
Mahalo!
Aloha, Honopu!
Very interesting, I see there are two 'sacs' of water on the root behind, one of them looks to be at the bottom. If you can't see any obvious insect within these, there is a possibilty something has bored into the root and made itself a protective sac.
Alternatively, the plant may be making a protective sac which fills with fluid. There are a few explanations here,
http://www.uri.edu/cels/bio/plant_anatomy/glossary.html#tissues_and_cells
"velamen: a multistratose epidermis found in aerial roots." is under Specialized epidermal cells and structures, but I'm not an expert on the subject.
Here's an explanation of 'velamen' as in orchids, but I imagine there are different forms of protection of roots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velamen
