Oh wow, i remember spending literal days walking all around the place looking for liverworts for a herbarium assignment, it took me so long to finally find some
Intrepid-Report3986
I can’t ID mosses but the liverworts are Marchantia polymorpha subsp ruderalis. Makes you wonder if you have one individual that colonized everything or if you had several intruders
saIamanderIover
Omg look at them they’re so happy 🥲
auspiciousjelly
🥺 I want to go to there
sadrice
I had a huge problem with liverwort in the mist room at a previous job. They were preventing pots from being watered, and blocking germination of some of the slower germinating seeds, or the ones that stay tiny for a long time. Rhododendron was an issue.
Cutting back the mist schedule a bit eliminated the problem, and it was still enough for our cuttings. The cutting bench was separate from the seed bench, and enclosed by tarp to keep humidity up, and we had more of an issue with algae than mist there, and reducing the schedule helped with that too.
They are beautiful though, one of my favorite bryophytes, I feel bad when I have to remove them. I am trying to cultivate some around the soil of a bonsai in progress, and I have some more on another that is going to become a bonsai. Unfortunately my conditions aren’t as high humidity.
I love finding a wet bank with the stone covered with bryophytes, surrounded by moss and ferns. If you look very closely, that is a good place to find fern gametophytes, which are near microscopic and difficult to find in the wild.
Far_Astronaut_818
Guelph? The first pic looks like somewhere I’ve seen before.
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That’s pretty cool.
Lovely liverworts,.liver long and prosper.
Oh wow, i remember spending literal days walking all around the place looking for liverworts for a herbarium assignment, it took me so long to finally find some
I can’t ID mosses but the liverworts are Marchantia polymorpha subsp ruderalis. Makes you wonder if you have one individual that colonized everything or if you had several intruders
Omg look at them they’re so happy 🥲
🥺 I want to go to there
I had a huge problem with liverwort in the mist room at a previous job. They were preventing pots from being watered, and blocking germination of some of the slower germinating seeds, or the ones that stay tiny for a long time. Rhododendron was an issue.
Cutting back the mist schedule a bit eliminated the problem, and it was still enough for our cuttings. The cutting bench was separate from the seed bench, and enclosed by tarp to keep humidity up, and we had more of an issue with algae than mist there, and reducing the schedule helped with that too.
They are beautiful though, one of my favorite bryophytes, I feel bad when I have to remove them. I am trying to cultivate some around the soil of a bonsai in progress, and I have some more on another that is going to become a bonsai. Unfortunately my conditions aren’t as high humidity.
I love finding a wet bank with the stone covered with bryophytes, surrounded by moss and ferns. If you look very closely, that is a good place to find fern gametophytes, which are near microscopic and difficult to find in the wild.
Guelph? The first pic looks like somewhere I’ve seen before.