Little Paxton Pits and a patch of skeletal soil over gravel. Winter Stalkball (Tulostoma brumale) and Eyed Flat-backed Millipede (Nanogona polydesmoides) sitting on Didymodon Brachythecium albicans, and Syntrichia ruraliformis curled against the sunshine.

"A rock in full sun, completely covered with the moss Grimmia orbicularis and various lichens, in a paleochannel near Aspa, in the Segrià."

Better than an Amazon delivery 😁 #sphagnum #peatlands @beadamoss.bsky.social

Detail of the capsule of Funaria hygrometrica. #mosses #bryophytes Detall de la càpsula de la molsa Funaria hygrometrica. #molses #briòfits

Mike is testing the effects of rewetting ditch drained bog.

Congratulations to Kai Hypen who picked up a Bronze Award in the World Nature Photography Awards in the Plants and Fungi category for his photo 'Against the light', a shot of Juniper haircap moss and gray curly lichen shot against the glittering light: www.forbes.com/sites/cecili...

How should I keep spores of Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis? Although I have kept them at -30˚C for 1-2 months, they don't germinate so far.

One or two mosses from Wolterton - Knieff's feather-moss Leptodictyum riparum), Wavy Beard-moss (Didymodon sinuosus), Lesser Pocket-moss (Fissidens bryoides), Dwarf feather-moss (Microeurhyncium pumilum) @norfolknats.bsky.social

Kupukupu — Sword Fern (Nephrolepis sp.). Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.

Lovely finds today💜💜 Partridgeberry...common apple moss...pink earth lichen...lanky moss #hikingsc #creepingvine #moss #lichen #moss

Leucobryum glaucum, commonly known as leucobryum moss or pincushion moss Found growing under white pine trees. It’s about 4 inches across #photography #nature

Not moss, but liverworts (Marchantiophyta) are thalloid green plants, one of the oldest and most primitive terrestrial plants in terms of evolution. Lophocolea heterophylla is very small and its leaves are thin and translucent. Found on dead oak wood in a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Hoh Rainforest is a very lush place. It's so wet that clouds of water vapor rise from anyplace the sun hits. It has so much life that moss even grows on the logs which have been polished by the butts of up to 25,000 people a day. I'm grateful there was just a fraction of that there today.

Allmost spring. Not for long now. #photography #forest #spring #nature

Clouds reflected in pond, first flowers of Indian Plum also known as Osoberry, Tree Mat Homalothecium Moss (Homalothecium fulgescens), and major work effort by a Pileated Woodpecker on an old Douglas fir in search of insects to feed on.

I think this succulent looking liverwort is Lesser Featherwort (Plagiochila porelloides), it is growing abundantly on the bank of a stream in acidic woodland in Devon. www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/learning/spe... #liverwort

#moss of the species Ceratodon purpureus (🇬🇧 purple forkmoss, 🇨🇿 rohozub nachový). It's a common moss with global distribution and is particularly resistant to anthropogenic pollution.

Trumpet #lichen (Cladonia fimbriata, 🇨🇿 dutohlávka třásnitá) apothecia growing among bristly haircap #moss (Polytrichum piliferum, 🇨🇿 ploník chlupnosý).

I HAD to stop on this road winding through the Ow Valley in Co. Wicklow. The bare trees were draped in bright, vivid green moss, turning the quiet road into an ethereal emerald tunnel. #photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel #Wicklow #Ireland #Nature #Moss #Trees #IrishLandscape #OptOutside

A gratuitous selection of photogenic bryophytes from fabulous rainy Borrowdale last week. Hylocomiastrum umbratum, Lewinskya rupestris and Syzygiella autumnalis.

A very muppety clump of moss #Winter #moss #bryophytes

Oregon Beaked Moss - (Kindbergia oregana) grows in lowland forests of the Pacific Northwest, Sword ferns on the ground and Licorice ferns growing on the tree trunks and/or rocks blanket the understory of the Northwest temperate forests.

A common, but beautiful species: Funaria hygrometrica Hedw., with young sporophytes. Location: Santa Caterina valley, Montgrí massif, 80 m. a.s.l., province of Girona, NE Spain. Growing on disturbed soil next to an artificial pond, February 2026. #bryophytes #mosses

There were about a dozen of these little ferns growing from a Devon stone wall. Rustyback Fern (Asplenium ceterach), a resilient species that copes with dry mortar and summer drought. #fern #ferns

In the green wood #Dartmoor #Devon

Another street tree epiphyte that's becoming more common in London - Orthotrichum tenellum forms small neat cushions with notably long capsules and calyptra. The leaf tips also have a distinctive beak at the end. Another bryophyte taking advantage of the cleaner air!

What looks like a glowing energy ball on my wall is likely Grey-cushioned Grimmia (Grimmia pulvinata) transformed by mizzling rain. www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/learning/spe...

Here with Dilated Scalewort, Frullania dilatata. Probably the most common Essex leafy liverwort, alongside Metzgeria furcata (the Forked Veilwort, pictured alongside from a different location). #bryophytes #liverworts #britishbryophytes #hepatics #plantsonbark

Sphagnum cuspidatum portrait #moss #bryophyte

My new love today is green. 🌿 I think this is Common Pocket-moss (Fissidens taxifolius), growing on damp soil along a woodland path in Devon, U.K. www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/learning/spe...

Thanks to a lecture yesterday I'm now obsessed with moss. Please send thoughts and prayers to my poor family.

Sphagnum quinquefarium orange and red variants #moss #bryophyte

Watching moss rehydrate under the microscope is magical! Here are 4 photos of Bartramiopsis lescurri (false apple moss) taken over 10 minutes. Upper left is just before adding water. Clockwise from there shows the hydration process.

A rather nice Ground beetle (Nothiphilus biguttatus) accompanied the Snow Fleas this morning. @norfolknats.bsky.social

I saw this beauty while hiking on Sunday. Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday! #getoutside #pnw #trees #forest #photography #nature

Every hat I own has moss and twigs stuck to it

Growing on the wall edge of a burial plot; it seems these #mosses may be (L-R) the common Anomalous Bristle-moss, Orthotrichum anomalum and Grey-cushioned Grimmia or Hedgehog Moss, Grimmia pulvinata, both with spore capsules visible - also a close-up of the latter, seen from above #MossMonday

Detall de la càpsula de GRIMMIA PULVINATA, fotografiada a la Plana d'Ancosa. #briòfits #molses

A nice patch of Protobryum bryoides growing on one of the thousands of yellow meadow ant hills at Berkley deer park this winter ,two 7 hour mondays searching hundreds of these ant hills for Rodobryum roseum, no sighn but only half the site searched so it could show . @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Rhodobryum grandifolium (Tayl.) C. Müll. Venezuela, Andes, Merida, surrounding Laguna Coromoto, Subparamos, on open humose rock, gneis, 3000 m, leg M. Lüth 3305

Marchesinia mackaii (MacKay's Pouncewowort) or rock treacle as I call it,on the Limestone Outcrops in the Wye valley Gorge last weekend @bbsbryology.bsky.social

it's #FernFriday

𝘍𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 Hedw. 📍 Río Eifonso

Mosses, including Leucobryum featured in that last repost, from the Oxford Book of Flowerless Plants (1966)

Fern stalk in cross section. Cut with razor blade without any microtome. Fresh unstained tissues. Polarized light.

Hymenophyllum Wilsonii

Common spleenwort, Asplenium ceterach. Corrections welcome

Sword Fern (Nephrolepis sp.). Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawai‘i.

Marchantia might seem an unlikely biotech crop, but it’s worth trying. In Aurore’s thesis, we pushed this concept by engineering the auronidins with MpMYB14 and using the pigments to dye cotton. It ended up giving a very unique and beautiful product. #PlantScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I must have walked past this fern dozens of times on the morning dog walk, but for some reason today was the day I noticed it. Does it look OK for Cyrtomium fortunei, @bsbibotany.bsky.social? Growing wild on a shaded flint wall in Royston, Cambs VC29.