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These scraggly ground mosses can be hard to ID but my best guess is Kindbergia praelonga, a very common moss in Britain.

These tiny mosses look just like daisies: Orthotrichum diaphanum and Schistidium crassipilum. Of course you need a magnifying glass to appreciate them...can be found on sandstone walls.

Desert ferns grow like this but I'm not sure there are any in cultivation. Selaginella is another plant that curls up and goes brown when dry.

Thanks for your welcome! Tortula is a moss. Its common name is Wall Screw Moss because the leaves twist into a corkscrew shape when dry. Other mosses do this as well and most belong to the genus Syntrichia. More on those later..

This has to be one of my favourites, Orthotrichum anomalum...to be found on most walls!

Thanks...I hope so!!

They are pretty advanced complex organism!

Looks like Tortula muralis..

I tried using full spectrum growlights on cacti for a few months. However Cacti need much stronger light than a home growlight can provide. I think they can cope with maybe 3 hours sunlight a day?

I have a somewhat obsessive interest in finding and identifying mosses. They are everywhere around us: on brickwork, doorsteps, roofs and trees... But what are they? The best site for identifying British Mosses is I think https://cisfbr.org.uk/ You will need to click on the bryophyte link at...

Thanks! The tops of old sandstone walls are fascinating as they provide homes for a wide range of cushion mosses. These are usually easy to ID, because they produce distinctive capsules. The ones you are likely to find on Walls are Tortula muralis, Grimmia pulvinata, Bryum capillare...

Thanks! No that's a Bryum... I think. It's often hard to ID mosses without the sporophytes present.

Opuntias are great, the glochids awesome !!