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Happy Birthday AlanK

Hope you're having a good one my friend 🙂

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I think you told me what type of moss this is but I forgot 😬 Did you call it a Grimmia or something like that?
Hope you're having a good one my friend 🙂

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I think you told me what type of moss this is but I forgot 😬 Did you call it a Grimmia or something like that?
Thanks! No that's a Bryum... I think. It's often hard to ID mosses without the sporophytes present.
 
Happy birthday Alan, I wish you would talk a bit more here about these mosses. I find them absolutely fascinating.
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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, Orthotrichum anomalum and Schistidium crassipilum.
 


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