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Friday 19 January 2018

January moss


Picking up a little bit on my posting yesterday, with the sun still shining, these moss fruiting bodies growing on a brick wall at work caught my eye this morning.  I'm no moss expert (which is a shocking thing to admit to as they are fascinating) but I think this may be a Brachythecium moss, possibly Ordinary Moss Brachythecium rutabulum.


Whatever the moss, it is beautiful and looking at the wall top which is covered, there are at least a dozen different mosses, oh to have a handy plant specialist next to me to identify them. And as mentioned yesterday, every day in January something new comes along to interest me in the natural world.

2 comments:

  1. I love the miniature worlds created by moss and lichens. I find both hard to identify but I always enjoy studying walls and examining the life they support. A lovely post Andrew.

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  2. Thank you Caroline - over the years I've released that it is the small things which keep the cycle of nature revolving, yet my knowledge is limited. Something I hope to correct as my own wheel revolves. :-)

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