You should see the typical DCIM/ folder with just .MISC and 100APPLE sub folders. Then you can track whether a third party app or just an accumulation of various photos is causing the folder structure to grow.
Elodea fulfills all of these conditions; therefore, it is alive and therefore an organism.
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