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

Rivers

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Fontinalis antipyretica in Gillersbach

River valleys

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Sankt Gallenkirch, Austria Olympic National Park, USA

Rocks

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

Limestone wall: see the Lambrigg page

Woodland

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Hüngerdorderwald, Eifel, Germany Blauwe Kamer (& Suzanne), Netherlands Woodland floor, Eifel, Germany  Dicranum montanum on tree roots,
Veluwe, Netherlands		 Olympic National Park, USA

 

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, right). 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


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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		 Click to see Olymic National Park pageClick to see Olymic National Park page

Hoh rain forest in Olympic national park

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.


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