Caption

A snail (cochlea) crawls over a mossy (bryophyta) tree trunk in the forest, hiking along the former inner-German border at the green belt near Mitwitz, Franconian Forest nature park Park

Date

Feb 21, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Marco Bunk

Reference

BRK26C18_001

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No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

26.2Mb (2.6Mb) / 7.6in x 13.4in / 2268 x 4032 (300dpi)

Keywords

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