Field guide No. 1463

A pane of glass lying on grass is cracked, and every crack has grown leaves and buds along it like a twig. The break is spreading, and thriving.

Natural selection

Cracks with leaves on

A pane of glass lying on grass is cracked, and every crack has grown leaves and buds along it like a twig. The break is spreading, and thriving.

Field noteGlass fractures branch like twigs already; this pane let the twigs put out leaves.

Specimen
No. 1463
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Category
Where it doesn’t exist
An overgrown lawn where a window was set down.
Nearest existing relative
A cracked windscreen.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking category