#ptychostomum

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#2063 - Ptychostomum capillare - Capillary Thread-Moss

Formerly Bryum capillare. A cosmopolitan species that is now found in tropical and temperate habitats worldwide, including growing under artificial lights in Wisconsin's Crystal Cave. In Australia it's common in woodlands, wet sclerophyll forest, rainforest, coastal vegetation and beside waterways.

When mosses growing in an abandoned mine in Spain were studied, it was found to be an effective bioacculmulator of copper, apparently sequestering the metal in the leaf waxes.

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Mosses (Plagiomnium and Ptychostomum sp.)

Pros of being moss: You don’t fall over yourself twice walking over ice to take these photos ;)

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Mosses of Black Creek Park