This summer I've been chipping away at a new poster, featuring 50 species commonly found in northeastern bogs—from carnivorous plants to sphagnum mosses and dragonflies. Here's a peek at the sketches…
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This summer I've been chipping away at a new poster, featuring 50 species commonly found in northeastern bogs—from carnivorous plants to sphagnum mosses and dragonflies. Here's a peek at the sketches…
Sphagnum squarrosum a distincitvely spiky sphagnum moss.
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Choose your own adventure comic, poll below!
As you stand on the vast moorland, near where the hills end and the bog starts, your mind rushes with anticipation. Today, you are going to RAISE THE DEAD!!!
… More specifically, you’re going to try necromancy on some dead frogs. You’ve been practicing for months, and now that you’re 12 years old, you feel like you should at least be able to make small animal skeletons move.
First, you’ll need to find some bones.
All you need to do is search the large, carnivorous pitcher plants and sundews that grow in the area. There are a lot of plants, so it would be easier if you had someone to help you search. This is where your pet golem, Pete, will come in handy. You like to mold him into a different shape every time you remake him.
What shape will you make your pet golem this time?
Human
Cow
Rat
Dragon
This collaborative choose-your-own-adventure comic is called Codex Calluna. A new page will be posted every Saturday evening (est). If you would like to, reblogs mean more people will be able to see this and participate!
Archive blog with only the comic pages: here
sphagnum and common haircap moss
April 2024
Sphagnum papillosum Lindb. : showing the diagnostic shape and namesake papillosity of the chlorocysts in a branch leaf cross-section. To get past subgenus Sphagnum, that was all I needed, but getting a pretty 1 or 2 cells thick cross-section isn't easy. This subgenus is easy to recognize macroscopically by its large cucullate (spoon shaped) leaves, but the main thing that helps get them to species is these cross sections.
Elder Ouroboros Sphagnum
Polytricum Moss (Polytrichum spp.) growing through a bed of red Sphagnum Moss (Sphagnum spp.) in blanket bog
Photo by Alex Hyde