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Some blue sky in this image of Wharfedale, Yorkshire, announces our move to this platform. The BBS will be having its annual Spring Field Meeting there, starting on Saturday, in this beautiful limestone countryside. It's been getting rather lonely on X/Twitter......
I finally fulfilled my ambition to visit the famous Saihōji Moss Temple in Kyoto. The mosses were looking their best in the pouring rain. For once I had to resist studying them, and simply submit to their beauty.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I finally fulfilled my ambition to visit the famous Saihōji Moss Temple in Kyoto. The mosses were looking their best in the pouring rain. For once I had to resist studying them, and simply submit to their beauty.
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The difference between habitat in the south (where I live) & the north is fascinating. Sphagnum palustre in Sussex is found in bogs & wet flushes with a supply of water from springs or streams. In Borrowdale, it is also at the top of this rocky mound; in the south, it doesn't rain enough for that.
November 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The difference between habitat in the south (where I live) & the north is fascinating. Sphagnum palustre in Sussex is found in bogs & wet flushes with a supply of water from springs or streams. In Borrowdale, it is also at the top of this rocky mound; in the south, it doesn't rain enough for that.
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Cummacatta Wood, just north of the Bowder Stone, has a wet flush with the gloriously red Sphagnum capillifolium (rare in Sussex) plus gone-over Bog Asphodel. It also has Juniper as well as Yew. First Juniper I've seen in Borrowdale; saw lots around Arnside on Limestone
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Cummacatta Wood, just north of the Bowder Stone, has a wet flush with the gloriously red Sphagnum capillifolium (rare in Sussex) plus gone-over Bog Asphodel. It also has Juniper as well as Yew. First Juniper I've seen in Borrowdale; saw lots around Arnside on Limestone
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Sphagnum majus and medium #moss #bryophyte
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Sphagnum majus and medium #moss #bryophyte
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Was looking at some stuff about Sphagnum expert Kjell Ivar Flatberg and saw something extraordinary. The patterns on his hat looked…familiar, they’re Sphagnum leaf cells!
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Was looking at some stuff about Sphagnum expert Kjell Ivar Flatberg and saw something extraordinary. The patterns on his hat looked…familiar, they’re Sphagnum leaf cells!
Well done Billy. These street trees can have a surprisingly rich nitrogen tolerant/dependent epiphyte flora.
Our Billy is exploring Winchester and found these 3 bryophytes growing on a ginkgo tree near Winchester Cathedral with another 11 species also on the trunk! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Photos: Microcoleopsis minutissima, Syntrichia papillosa and Syntrichia laevipila
Photos: Microcoleopsis minutissima, Syntrichia papillosa and Syntrichia laevipila
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Well done Billy. These street trees can have a surprisingly rich nitrogen tolerant/dependent epiphyte flora.
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Sphagnum majus portrait #moss #bryophyte
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Sphagnum majus portrait #moss #bryophyte
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SCAPANIA cf. ASPERA with green gemmae, growing on a shadowed limestone rocks in a Pinus sylvestris forest, between Fredes and Tortosa (Massís dels Ports natural park). #bryophytes #liverworts
November 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
SCAPANIA cf. ASPERA with green gemmae, growing on a shadowed limestone rocks in a Pinus sylvestris forest, between Fredes and Tortosa (Massís dels Ports natural park). #bryophytes #liverworts
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First record of large leafy liverwort Bazzania trilobata for co Derry (H40) since 1834! Also growing alongside it was Hymenophyllum tunbrigense which is a new county site too.
Ness Country Park, Co. Derry.
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#bryophytes #ferns #botany
Ness Country Park, Co. Derry.
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#bryophytes #ferns #botany
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
First record of large leafy liverwort Bazzania trilobata for co Derry (H40) since 1834! Also growing alongside it was Hymenophyllum tunbrigense which is a new county site too.
Ness Country Park, Co. Derry.
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#bryophytes #ferns #botany
Ness Country Park, Co. Derry.
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#bryophytes #ferns #botany
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Sphagnum riparium close-up #moss #bryophyte
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Sphagnum riparium close-up #moss #bryophyte
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Was very pleased to have Sphagnum skyense confirmed growing above Líonán in Conamara. A first for me and na Mám toirce.
Bhí mé an-sásta Sphagnum skyense a aimsiú sna Mám Toirce ar cnoic Líonán ag fás ag thart ar 400m. Buíochas go Rory Hodd don comhairle.
Bhí mé an-sásta Sphagnum skyense a aimsiú sna Mám Toirce ar cnoic Líonán ag fás ag thart ar 400m. Buíochas go Rory Hodd don comhairle.
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Was very pleased to have Sphagnum skyense confirmed growing above Líonán in Conamara. A first for me and na Mám toirce.
Bhí mé an-sásta Sphagnum skyense a aimsiú sna Mám Toirce ar cnoic Líonán ag fás ag thart ar 400m. Buíochas go Rory Hodd don comhairle.
Bhí mé an-sásta Sphagnum skyense a aimsiú sna Mám Toirce ar cnoic Líonán ag fás ag thart ar 400m. Buíochas go Rory Hodd don comhairle.
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Halloween-Moss
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Halloween-Moss
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale
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Sphagnum quinquefarium #moss #bryophyte
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Sphagnum quinquefarium #moss #bryophyte
BBS members getting stuck in to the marl pits at the joint Wessex/Southern Group meeting to Marlborough Deeps in the New Forest. Highlights include the uncommon calcicole of wet places Kandaea elodes.
October 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
BBS members getting stuck in to the marl pits at the joint Wessex/Southern Group meeting to Marlborough Deeps in the New Forest. Highlights include the uncommon calcicole of wet places Kandaea elodes.
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I was so happy to attend the International Association of Bryologists conference in Taiwan last week - Organised by the Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute and the Taiwan Bryological Society. Interesting presentations, good chat, and some time to get into the mountains to mingle with moss 💚
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I was so happy to attend the International Association of Bryologists conference in Taiwan last week - Organised by the Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute and the Taiwan Bryological Society. Interesting presentations, good chat, and some time to get into the mountains to mingle with moss 💚
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CRYPHAEA HETEROMALLA, una molsa indicadora de la qualitat de l'aire que sempre creix sobre arbres i arbustos en llocs humits.
Els seus caulidis secundaris perpendiculars al substrat, amb càpsules sèssils, ens permeten identificar-la fàcilment a camp.
#briòfits #bryophytes #molses #mosses
Els seus caulidis secundaris perpendiculars al substrat, amb càpsules sèssils, ens permeten identificar-la fàcilment a camp.
#briòfits #bryophytes #molses #mosses
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
CRYPHAEA HETEROMALLA, una molsa indicadora de la qualitat de l'aire que sempre creix sobre arbres i arbustos en llocs humits.
Els seus caulidis secundaris perpendiculars al substrat, amb càpsules sèssils, ens permeten identificar-la fàcilment a camp.
#briòfits #bryophytes #molses #mosses
Els seus caulidis secundaris perpendiculars al substrat, amb càpsules sèssils, ens permeten identificar-la fàcilment a camp.
#briòfits #bryophytes #molses #mosses
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Sphagnum pulchrum and papillosum #moss #bryophyte
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Sphagnum pulchrum and papillosum #moss #bryophyte
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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...
October 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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...
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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
October 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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
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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
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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
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Sphagnum capillifolium and quinquefarium #moss #bryophyte
October 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Sphagnum capillifolium and quinquefarium #moss #bryophyte
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Sphagnum capillifolium #moss #bryophyte
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Sphagnum capillifolium #moss #bryophyte
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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!
October 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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!
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Sphagnum cuspidatum var viride (the completely green variant), tenellum and papillosum #moss #bryophyte
October 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Sphagnum cuspidatum var viride (the completely green variant), tenellum and papillosum #moss #bryophyte