@zozo that's really interesting. Mosses are such fascinating and beautiful organisms!
Yes its absolutely a very intriguing life form..
Currently i have some intersting things going on in this setup.
It contains a number of mosses randomly collected from nature and it contains some wood pieces i left in the garden for a few years growing mosses on its own devices.
Now its indoors in a totaly different condition and see grow form changes comming up.
Here a moss growing at the waters edge, the terrestrial form grows bright green and no taller than a few mm. At the black colored substrate, now a lot of water evaporated, need to top off again, but most times its completely submersed with the water about an inch higher and what creeps into the water is stringy and darker green. This are already 2 form changes vissible.
This is over 5 cm away from its originating batch growing into the water, bellow the water level over the substrate you can see it creeping on even further beyond the pictures frame.
This i previously thought its a different one, because it was even smaller looking like a velvet carpet when i collected it. Either younger or a different conditon. It grew a bit since it is in here and now turns into a smaller look a like of the above moss. And also this is creeping on stringy into the water. But it developed spore caps the other yet not has growen.
It is as if i see 3 different forms transitioning from 3 different conditions. From a shaded spot in the forest, to a damp indor invironment into water.
But than again, i'm not realy qualified enough to make the statement it's the same moss. I have brought home patches of 3 differnt moss sp. growing entangled with eachother. What more is in there?
This one is also interesting, found it growing on top of a large silica coble that was actualy in a relative dry spot. When i found it it was bright green with almost yellow tips, fat and fluffy. Now after a few months in this spot it changed, the brown tips is whats left of the fat fluffy stuf. it is shrinking, changing color and what touches the water grows on but yet not realy stringy, not creeping over the substrate and more compact and firm as if it keeps its tips above the water line..
This moss is showing transition in 3 different forms in different condition in a rather short periode of months.
This is how it looked teh day a found it. Far away from water..
Also planted star moss species in there that are looking bad now. But??? Exciting..
Nut sure moss can die.. It more likely is real yet undiscovered fountain of yought living forever.