Mosses and ferns

Two types of fern growing next to each other.

Hello #FernFriday

YouTube video by MartinMicroscope Fern Spores under a microscope

Spores getting launched!

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A small cluster of mushrooms with pale caps and orange stems on a mossy tree stump.

#fungi #fungifriends #madeira

the smell of moss on a winters day clears the mind of now. it's everywhere in this open break of dense forest. it covers the ground debris like a blanket of calm absorbing everything that once lived high in the trees. cheeky ferns tease, 'you can't get me' but there is no competition for all is well and watched over by the sentries who for generations have minded this land. in the distance a sunbeam enfolded in blue sky.

where news is forgotten

#peace #nature #photography #wellbeing #forestwalks #art

Het is nevelachtig weer, mooi om er op uit te trekken met een camera. Op de foto het Gewoon Muursterretje (Tortula muralis).

#mos #macrofotografie #regendruppels #natuurfotografie

An array of cushions of moss grow on a concrete fence post. Some are green with silver tips, some olive green with orange green sporangia stems poking up. The effect is a bit like a collage of jewel toned pin cushions.

A slightly different array of cushions of moss grow on a concrete fence post. Some are green with silver tips( Grimmia pulvinata?) , some olive green with orange green sporangia stems poking up. There is one springing up with long leafy branches in the middle (feather moss?) . The effect is a bit like a collage of jewel toned pin cushions.

Mosses on fences
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
#MossMonday

Chestnut tree (likely Castanea sativa, the Sweet Chestnut). The mossy layer (doesn't harm the tree) is essentially a miniature forest, providing a home for tiny invertebrates and other small plants.

Chestnut tree (likely Castanea sativa, the Sweet Chestnut). The mossy layer (doesn't harm the tree) is essentially a miniature forest, providing a home for tiny invertebrates and other small plants. #nature #plants #moss #biology #ecology

Manton''s Polypody Polypodium x mantonii

Rustyback Asplenium ceterach

Whilst out Snowdrop hunting for the @bsbibotany.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social Flora of Cumbria Recording Group, we found some lovely patches of Manton''s Polypody, Polypodium x mantonii, & a large stand of Rustyback, Asplenium ceterach. Underbarrow, #Cumbria
#WildFernHour #wildflowerhour

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My good friend and director of the natural history museum of Denmark is looking for a curator for #bryophytes. Thus, if you like these small #plants, you should really apply. Great place to work, great city and amazing plants.

#sciencejobs #plantscijobs

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Warming may boost soil carbon storage in boreal Sphagnum peatlands, study finds A new study reports that climate warming can increase soil carbon accumulation in boreal Sphagnum peatlands by boosting plant productivity, protecting iron, and inhibiting microbial decomposition.

Warming can increase soil carbon storage in boreal Sphagnum peatlands by enhancing plant productivity, protecting iron, and inhibiting microbial decomposition, contrasting with trends in forests and tundra. doi.org/hbn8f3

Bazzania trilobata showing its three-lobed leaves and thread-like branches. It forms loose, upright hummocks that stand out immediately compared to other oceanic liverwort species.

Displaying it's more open, flat form. A humidity loving species that grows over rocks, trees, and sometimes just woodland floors in the wetter Western parts of the UK. In drier places, you're more likely to find it associated with microclimates such as ravines and wooded gorges.

Bazzania trilobata
One of the largest UK liverworts identifiable by its hummock formimg behaviours and three-lobed 'feet' that create a millipede-like appearance.

#moss #bryophytes
#ukbotany #marcophotography #uknature #plants

Moss with sporophytes and reindeer lichen growing in leaf litter. Acceptable detail in photo.

Look at what this old phone that's mostly an error message and has been soaked a few countless times can still do.

....Sometimes.
#mossy #naturesky

I am only just starting to learn about mosses so I don’t know much but this link might help, it has some great photos and there is more info in the field guide link on the page.

Enjoy that adventure!

www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/learning/spe...

Moss in situ; capsules have dark setae and conical lids

Leaf; ~1mm, similar to Hypnum resupinatum

Capsule outer surface (left) and inner surface (right)

Capsule exothecial cells with uniformly thickened cell walls

Pylaisia polyantha. An attractive silky epiphyte, once an infrequent species but doing well at Broughton Sanctuary, Skipton - now seen in 3 wet woods. Slender erect capsules on dark setae, conical lids and capsule exothecial cells have uniformly thickened cell walls. @bbsbryology.bsky.social

10-day time-lapse of moss growth | 2021 Small World in Motion Competition Wojtek Plonka - 10-day time-lapse of moss growth

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More ferns! Pinnate-leaved plants from the first two images are Black Spleenwort (Asplenium adiantum-nigrum) and the last image shows a little Hart's-tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium), all of which are happy with this mild rainy weather we're getting 🌧️☔
#essex #ferns #botany #plants #maldon

A wet morning in Mullaghmeen Forest in Meath. A pleasant enough woodland walk but part of the forest is being cut down. Coillte strikes again.

Monday morning hike in the mossy mossy woods.

#Hiking #Photography #EastCoastKin #WoodlandWednesday #Dublin #Ireland

A moss covered triple trunked big leaf maple tree ascends into an overcast sky. Many other trees in the background.

Triple Trunked Tuesday
#fujifilm #moss #forest

YouTube video by mortrek Time Lapse of Liverwort Plant Taking Over the Planter

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Tetraphis pellucida with its distinctive gemmae cups (although I think there would sometimes be more of them than my sample had) growing on a wooded ledge in Leic aimhréidh. A first for me, thanks @joannedenyer.bsky.social for confirming :)

I think that this is new patch species #26 for the year, Hart's-tongue Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium undulatum) today along the Cloud Trail at Weston on Trent. The leaves really do look like minature Hart's-tongue Fern

YouTube video by Skolotāja Sintija Viļņainā skrajlape / Hart's-tongue Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium undulatum)

Hart’s-tongue Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium undulatum)

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Pohlia nutans (Nodding Thread-moss) is a very common, widespread acrocarpous moss in the UK found on acidic soil, peat, and rotten wood.
#ThePhotoHour #TonyBayliss #photography #art #moss #macro #macrophotography

I'd like to share with you this perfect moss ball 🌿✨

A photo of Plagiochila punctata, a tiny green liverwort growing on the trunk of an oak tree. This individual was hardly larger than a grain of sand, and can be tricky to spot amongst other epiphtic rainforest species.

Plagiochila punctata

A hyperoceanic liverwort found in damp, rainy woodlands across the Altantic rainforest zone in the UK.
It can most easily be differentiated from other Plagiochila species by it's significantly smaller size 🔍🌿

#naturephotography
#macro
#botany

Color close up photo of a fern leaf. A green gradient from darker green at the top to lighter green at the tips of the leaves. The background is a yellow green and blurry.

This is the green I've been waiting to see again. This lovely green gradient on a fern as the leaves unfurl. #thinkspring #naturephotography #ferns

Little Shaggy-moss, Rhytidiadelphys loreus, at RSPB Loch Lomond, helping me to go #BonkersForBryophytes.

This is the feathery bogmoss Sphagnum cuspidatum. Collected in Sweden during November 2025. The first photo really highlights the hidden architecture that lets peat mosses and wetlands hold water. (It's also called the toothed feather moss for obvious reasons - it has cute toothed leaf tips!)

Least Adder's-tongue on the patch last month. Only grows in a small 2m square of turf on Guernsey. I didn't know exactly where this was before a passing botanist pointed me in the right direction. At about 2cm tall, no wonder I hadn't noticed them before.

Don’t know about anyone else but this is the densest display of Maidenhair Spleenwort I have ever seen