Diplosoma retroversum befriending pebbles

In habitat Diplosoma retroversum is often cohabiting with quartzite and other pebbles. Still, true to type it is a flowering plant that lives in the expected way, tied up in its genetic makeup.

Annual blooms and seeds are produced by so many plants on earth in what people may occasionally realise are quite heroic feats. But all the other species on earth, excluding people, don’t know about heroes or villains. When choices are tied up in genes, chemistry, sunshine and rain, life has a simplicity that people wonder about, sometimes yearn for (Frandsen, 2017; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Smith, et al, 1998; iNaturalist; https://www.worldfloraonline.org).