Field guide No. 1568

An eroded riverbank cut open above the water shows a long root running through the soil, swelling in lumps like a snake that swallowed stones. Lunch is still in transit.

Growing pains

The root has been eating

An eroded riverbank cut open above the water shows a long root running through the soil, swelling in lumps like a snake that swallowed stones. Lunch is still in transit.

Field noteRoots thicken evenly, and this one in the cut bank swells in knots like a snake after dinner.

Specimen
No. 1568
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Nothing
Where it doesn’t exist
An eroded riverbank with a root swallowing stones
Nearest existing relative
A tree root in a riverbank
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking nothing