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21-08-2009, 08:21 PM
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Evening all! 
A small micro-habitat found in the middle of scrub. What flowers are these growing in which habitat-type please? 15/08/2009  A small, distinctive micro-habitat... ...growing on concrete surrounded by scrubby grassland.
Any help on this one appreciated!
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21-08-2009, 09:09 PM
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looks like mosses to me
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21-08-2009, 09:19 PM
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Really, just... moss? 
It looks so... exotic, though - so many pretty, individual-looking plants. Almost the sort of setting where you'd find sundew or similar. Is it all one species, or several? I don't know too much about this area, see.
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21-08-2009, 09:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Green  Really, just... moss?
It looks so... exotic, though - so many pretty, individual-looking plants. Almost the sort of setting where you'd find sundew or similar. Is it all one species, or several? I don't know too much about this area, see. | I totally agree with you Jason, it looks wonderful and there are definitely different moss plants!  I think it looks really good in it's own context (think that's the word I'm looking for?)
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21-08-2009, 09:26 PM
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Context... yes! It looks pretty removed from the general area it was in, like a seperate entity - a little Oasis hidden beneath the grasses...
I'll try and get back to it and photograph all the different mosses there, then re-post next week
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21-08-2009, 09:31 PM
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That will great! I find it very interesting. Can't wait to see more!
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22-08-2009, 09:48 PM
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At first I thought it was Faeces at first which the moss was growing out of but it just older decomposed moss which is growing out of it. Our whole garden is just moss - very little grass. |
22-08-2009, 10:01 PM
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Ah, so that's what the brown matter is. I just assumed it to be a brown moss! |
23-08-2009, 04:36 AM
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I wonder whether the more gelatinous stuff on the left mid-way up the shot is a species of Nostoc. It's a gelatinous blue green alga that swells and becomes very conspicuous after rain.
Wikipedia says it quite nicely: Quote: | Nostoc is a genus of fresh water cyanobacteria that forms spherical colonies composed of filaments of moniliform cells in a gelatinous sheath. When on the ground, a Nostoc colony is ordinarily not seen; but after a rain it swells up into a conspicuous jellylike mass, which was once thought to have fallen from the sky, hence the popular names, fallen star and star jelly. It is also called witches' butter (not to be confused with the fungus Tremella mesenterica). Michael Quinion of the World Wide Words newsletter says that it is known in Welsh as pwdre sêr, or rot of the stars.
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Thanks for posting Rob
So it's possibly a few spp. of moss growing on a fungi? | | | |
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