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bbsbryology.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social · Mar 13

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......

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bbsbryology.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 21h

Sphagnum capillifolium and quinquefarium #moss #bryophyte

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bbsbryology.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social · 1d

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

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bbsbryology.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 1d

Sphagnum capillifolium #moss #bryophyte

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Michael Lueth @milueth.bsky.social · 4d

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 Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 6d

Sphagnum pulchrum looking sharp and golden #moss #bryophyte

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Jo Wilbraham @jowilbraham.bsky.social · 9d

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.

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miqueljover.bsky.social @miqueljover.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 15d

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

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bbsbryology.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social · 17d

I'm really enjoying all this romanesque church architecture!

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Dr Astrid Biddle @astridbiddle.bsky.social · 21d

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

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bbsbryology.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social · 20d

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

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George R. L. Greiff @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social · 21d

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 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.

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George R. L. Greiff @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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.

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miqueljover.bsky.social @miqueljover.bsky.social · 24d

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

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 25d

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