Happy Birthday AlanK

[Zigs]

Hope you're having a good one my friend



I think you told me what type of moss this is but I forgot Did you call it a Grimmia or something like that?

 

[Tetters]

Happy birthday Alan, I wish you would talk a bit more here about these mosses. I find them absolutely fascinating.
Have a lovely day in the sunshine

 

[Alan K.]

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.

 

[Alan K.]

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.

 

[Anniekay]

Happy Birthday Alan and many more !!

 

[Alan K.]

Happy Birthday Alan and many more !!

Thanks...I hope so!!

 

[Jersey Devil]

Happy B'Day my friend