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Originally Posted by RobSutton  I put it down as juniperinum because I thought I could see reddish tips to the leaves and I couldn't see the long white tips that piliferum has. I found that enlarging the photo made it slightly clearer but it does highlight the problem of trying to identify things from photos. |
You may well be right with
Polytrichum juniperinum in this photo. The photo isn't crisp enough for me to be sure either way, not being much of a moss man myself. I was just offering another alternative.
It's probably about as appropriate to try to identify mosses from a photo as it is to try to identify mushrooms.
Largely it's just an educated guess and you really don't have all the information you need to make the identification.
I always counsel against it... but then find myself having a go anyway. But it's fun to have a go nevertheless and the forum would be a lot less interesting without the discussions on unidentified specimens.
Ken