Nigel Cattlin / Gardeners delight, Cherry tomato seedling just germinated with cotyledons above the soil

Nigel Cattlin / Gardeners delight, Cherry tomato seedling just germinated with cotyledons above the soil

Nigel Cattlin / Gardeners delight, Cherry tomato seedling just germinated with cotyledons above the soil

Nigel Cattlin / Rice blast (Magnaporthe grisea) disease infected nodes on Rice (Oryza sativa) plant stems, Luzon, Philippines

Bruno D'Amicis / Beech (Fagus sylvatica) tree seedlings in old growth forest in spring, Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park / Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise UNESCO World Heritage Site Italy. May

Bruno D'Amicis / Beech (Fagus sylvatica) tree seedlings in old growth forest in spring, Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park / Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise UNESCO World Heritage Site Italy. May

Ingo Arndt / European beech seedling seed leaves {Fagus sylvatica} Germany Sequence 2/2

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) seedling growing amongst lichens and heather. Cairngorms National Park. Highlands, Scotland, September.

Juergen Freund / Forest seedling growing in the Bornean forest. Gunung Gading National Park, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

Floris van Breugel / Sprouting Coconut palm on stony beach on the south shore of Tutuila, American Samoa. January 2012.

Ernie Janes / Seedling English oak tree (Quercus robur) in the rain, UK

Stephen Dalton / Common snail (Helix aspera) feeding on seedling, UK