I'm red/green colourblind so they look the same to me 😂

Looks very much like it. Seems to be living up to its name!

Haven't got under the microscope yet but I suspect this is Sphagnum pulchrum I have come across in a very good bog today north of the N59 in Conamara...

Sunken lane in Hampshire, UK. The road is narrow - perhaps single track - with tall steep verges that are covered in vegetation and trees. On the edge of the road is a clipboard with white paper and a dark coloured rucksack. The trees and shrubs are fully leaved so it is shaded

Bartramia pomiformis, a bryophyte, on sandy soil with exposed soil around ti. It is green and looks a bit like a mini conifer.

Our Billy found Bartramia pomiformis - a rare and declining bryophyte in Hampshire while surveying a sunken lane in the South Downs near Liss! #HantsPlants @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Great spot for exploring yesterday in sna mám toirce. So many beautiful lichens and mosses (would be worth a trip for a lichenologist). One of the highlights was this beautiful Douinia ovata which looks to have last been recorded in Conamara (beanna beola) in 1965

Well that's a coincidence. I was in the New Forest on 13/10 and spotted this. Didn't see you there though 🤔😂

Sphagnum capillifolium and quinquefarium #moss #bryophyte

Well, I'm very happy to repost anything with that #, but it might just be you and me!

Yes in theory Oct 21 is National Moss Day. In practice the enthusiasm to put on special events has dwindled over the years and I haven't heard of anything special for this year. But that doesn't stop you celebrating it!

Sphagnum capillifolium #moss #bryophyte

Dicranella grevelliana am Tuxer Gletscher im Zillertal, 2550 m, Österreich, bei der BLAM-Exkursion. Ich habe noch nie ein so großes Vorkommen dieser Art gesehen!

Sphagnum cuspidatum var viride (the completely green variant), tenellum and papillosum #moss #bryophyte

Sphagnum pulchrum looking sharp and golden #moss #bryophyte

Journeying home from a fantastic @bbsbryology.bsky.social meeting this weekend - interesting to visit Thorne Moors, an area ravaged by industrial peat extraction which ceased in early 2000s. Conservation management in the region now focused on rewilding and restoring precious peatlands.

PORELLA PLATYPHYLLA vista des de sota, amb els amfigastris clarament decurrents al llarg del caulidi.

Sphagnum balticum taken yesterday in a wetland nature reserve #moss #bryophyte

I'm really enjoying all this romanesque church architecture!

Sphagnum squarrosum in a swampy woodland pond in the New Forest on Monday. Such a pretty moss!

Yes I do. Not very often, but usually when they occur there are multiple infections on the same plant. Here's one stained with lactofuchsin

A single shoot of Scapania undulata photographed against a white background. The apex is green while the brown lower parts display infection (arrowed). Bryobroma scapaniae presents as clustered black ascomata and infected tissues are covered by a dense, dark brown mycelium network.

Zoomed in on some infected leaves with dark brown, branching mycelium and black fruitbodies.

Clusters of black fruitbodies on largely leafless basal part of the plant shoot.

Great to find the fungus Bryobroma scapaniae on Scapania undulata in Bannau Brycheiniog in Wales a few days ago. I think this is the third ever record of the species, and I see how it is very easy to miss, with the dark fruitbodies disguised against the black host stem. From a rock in a stream.

A rhizoidal gall on Bryum sp. from mud in a reservoir draw-down zone. It is club-shaped and curved, containing five chytrid zoosporangia inside it, which are spherical. Some of the zoosporangia have thread-like exit tubes leading to the outside, which liberate zoospores that infect other cells.

Micrograph of a rhizoid gall caused by a chytrid on Bryum moss. The infected cell contains several zoosporangia, some of which have thread-like exit tubes that release flagellated spores. Chytrids are interesting fungi that mostly lack hyphae and have mobile spores.

Ara que s'acosta la tardor és freqüent trobar l'hepàtica PELLIA ENDIVIIFOLIA amb el tal·lus profusament bifurcat, amb una forma que de vegades recorda una endivia, d'aquí el seu epítet específic. #briòfits #hepàtiques

A rarity!
Austin’s Bog Moss at Gors Goch.
Sphagnum austinii is found in undisturbed sites in raised and blanket bog. Of significant conservation concern across Europe, in Wales it's know at only two peatland sites.
Thanks to @natreswales.bsky.social's Dave Reed for the photo.
#peatlands #sphagnum

Sphagnum cuspidatum frozen #bryophyte #moss

Sphagnum quinquefarium #moss #bryophyte

Reposting this from X. Sounds very intriguing but I don't think it's going to catch on enough to be a conservation issue!

This really shows the domed capitulum that distinguishes S.capillifolium from S.rubellum very nicely. Super photo!

Sphagnum rubellum and strictum #moss #bryophyte

Sphagnum fallax in a mesotrophic sloping fen in central Germany 🌿

Sphagnum riparium #moss #bryophyte