Mossy Landscapes, Arts and Crafts and Animals

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Sphagnum bogs


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

Rivers


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

River valleys


Sankt Gallenkirch, Austria	Olympic National Park, USA

Rocks


Drachenslucht, Thüringenwald, Germany. Pellia	German-French border (Eifel)	Mossy rock (Eifel)	Neckera rock, Eifel	Neckera rock face, Eifel

Limestone wall: see the Lambrigg page

Woodland


Hüngerdorderwald, Eifel, Germany	Blauwe Kamer (& Suzanne), Netherlands	Woodland floor, Eifel, Germany	Dicranum montanum on tree roots, Veluwe, Netherlands	Olympic National Park, USA	Hylocomnium spelendens, Wageningen	Plagiothcium and Polytrichum

Dreimühlen waterfall, Eifel, Germany

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

A mossy bear

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

Muscinae from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904

Hoh rain forest in Olympic national park

Sphagnum art

Film

The moss witch

Mossy Animals

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.

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