Mossy Landscapes, Arts and Crafts and Animals

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Sphagnum bogs

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Migneint, North Wales  Vragenderveld, Gelderland (NL) Microscopic life in Sphagnum. By Wim van Egmond
 Dahlem nature reserve, Germany
Location

Rivers

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Fontinalis antipyretica in Gillersbach Rhycostegium riparoides in Eichenbach (Eifel)
 Brachythecium rivulare in Eichenbach (Eifel)

River and stream  valleys

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Sankt Gallenkirch, Austria Olympic National Park, USA Luntersebeek stream (Gelderland)

Rocks

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 Anomodon rock
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Drachenslucht, Thüringenwald, Germany. Pellia German-French border (Eifel)  Mossy rock (Eifel)  Neckera rock, Eifel Neckera  rock face, Eifel
 Anomodon rock, Eifel.
 Racomitrium aciculare growing on Jost Barbiers' Camera Obscura. De Drijen, Het Depot, Wageningen

Limestone wall: see the Lambrigg page

Woodland

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 Hylocomnium splendens Plagiotheciium and Polytrichum
Hüngerdorderwald, Eifel, Germany Blauwe Kamer, Netherlands Woodland floor, Eifel, Germany  Dicranum montanum on tree roots,
Veluwe, Netherlands		 Olympic National Park, USA
 Hylocomnium spelendens, Wageningen
 Plagiothcium and Polytrichum
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Mossy woods near to Kirchahr-Winnen
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Woods near to Maulback
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Dreimühlen waterfall, Eifel, Germany

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The Driemühlen ('3 mills') waterfall in the Chalk Eifel is a remarkable example of a structure formed by mosses. The chalk-rich water comes out through Crataneuron moss, and chalk deposits are formed on the moss leaves (see microphoto). These deposits build up and so gradually the waterfall grows. The outer layer is living moss, the inner structure petrified moss.

Art & crafts

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Bear made from moss at the Panoramahoeve pancake house, Bennekom.

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Muscinae from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904		 Thuidium
Thuidium tamarixinum By Beatrix Potter
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Hoh rain forest in Olympic national park
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Racomitrium aciculare growing on Jost Barbiers' Camera Obscura. De Drijen, Het Depot, Wageningen.

Brachythecium shoes

Sphagnum art

Tony Turf

 Toni Turf
Toni turf (click for details)

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Film

The moss witch

Mossy Animals

Trychopeplus laciniatus
Trychopeplus laciniatus, from Nectandra, in the cloud forests of Costa Rica. This mantid is apparentely camouflaged as a moss or liverwort. Photo from Diana Lucas.

Bank vole
Bank voles eating moss in the Rheinbach woud (forest)

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