Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-663.41.__
Geocarpon minimum
English: Tinytim; Earth-fruit.
Region: North America.
Botany: sandstone glades, outcrops, bare, sparsely vegetated areas; soil contains large amounts of magnesium and sodium salts; on slicks with a coating of lichens, Xanthoparmelia, and Nostoc cyanobacteria, very wet after winter rain and then dry into a hard crust; sprouting and full life cycle within four weeks; succulent, smaal 4 cm; hair-thin stem; grayish, brownish, green when new and then turns magenta, red, bright pink, or purplish as it matures from anthocyanins; leaves tiny, 4 mm; inflorescence red or purplish, one flower no more than 4 millimeters long.