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Photographer: Courtesy Gary Braasch Photography
Caption: Marker detail: Lupines
Additional Description: A year after the eruption, a tiny lupine plant sprouted on the Pumice Plain. It reproduced at an astounding rate, blanketing volcanic rock. Bacteria on lupine roots manufacture nitrogen, providing this fertilizer to the plant. Leaves caught and held wind-blown seeds, and added nutrients to the pumice when they died.
Submitted: October 31, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p546962
File Size: 1.615 Megabytes

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