Tom
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If Willow moss is Native to the UK, where does it grow? I've never seen any locally - is there a specific area or water type it prefers?
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Where to collect Willow Moss?
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Garuf
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I found some in Wales in llanberris in a lake, water totally placid. You can buy it for ponds from native specialists very reasonably, I posted a thread with it in a while back.
Just have a nose in every pond and waterway you see and sooner or later you will spot it.
Sometimes covered in muck so you could easily overlook it, although it tends to bunch just below the surface, which conversely makes it easier to spot.
Sometimes covered in muck so you could easily overlook it, although it tends to bunch just below the surface, which conversely makes it easier to spot.
Hi all,
It is a very common moss, you can usually find it in any fairly clean water. It likes to fix to rocks, and you usually get it where the rivers aren't too flashy, probably because it tends to get washed off during floods, and doesn't form the big obvious masses.
Details here: <http://hosting.sleath.co.uk/bbs/accounts/mosses/Fontinalis antipyretica_DMPT.pdf>
cheers Darrel
It is a very common moss, you can usually find it in any fairly clean water. It likes to fix to rocks, and you usually get it where the rivers aren't too flashy, probably because it tends to get washed off during floods, and doesn't form the big obvious masses.
Details here: <http://hosting.sleath.co.uk/bbs/accounts/mosses/Fontinalis antipyretica_DMPT.pdf>
cheers Darrel
Tom
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Thanks for the replies.
I ordered some off eBay just to see what it was like and received it this morning. Does it have different emersed and submerged forms? It looks very different to what Amano labels as Fontinalis antipyretica in his books (that looks more like Java Moss!), although is is the same as on that link Darrel.
Tom
I ordered some off eBay just to see what it was like and received it this morning. Does it have different emersed and submerged forms? It looks very different to what Amano labels as Fontinalis antipyretica in his books (that looks more like Java Moss!), although is is the same as on that link Darrel.
Tom
ghostsword
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I got willow moss emmersed and immersed, and they look similar. Immersed grows much faster and bigger. It also has harder stems...
Hi all,
Fontinalis is a totally aquatic moss, which is probably why Luis' isn't doing so well emersed. There are quite a few moss that live in the zone where they are submersed/emersed depending on the water level Cinclodotus fontinaloides (very common in the Burren turloughs) is the one that comes to mind, but there are plenty more.
Via the BBS <http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Bryodiversity/vc45/vc45site.htm#aquatic>.
Aquatic or semi-aquatic, Cinclidotus fontinaloides, Racomitrium aciculare, Fontinalis antipyretica and Hyocomium armoricum, often submerged Conocephalum conicum, Lunularia cruciata, Bryum pseudotriquetrum and Schistidium apocarpum. Less often submerged, but wet Thuidium tamariscinum, Dicranella heteromalla, Amblystegium serpens and Lophocolea bidentata. Growing in or near waterfalls, Pellia epiphylla, Blindia acuta, Brachythecium rivulare and Hygrohypnum ochraceum.
You could look up the species mentioned above here: <http://www.bbsfieldguide.org.uk/content/racomitrium-aciculare> or for better quality images buy "Field guide to mosses and liverworts of Britain and Ireland" for £25. It lists about 65 species of Bryophyte as to a greater or lesser degree "aquatic". Here is the page for Leptodictyum riparium <http://www.bbsfieldguide.org.uk/content/leptodictyum-riparium>.
cheers Darrel
Fontinalis is a totally aquatic moss, which is probably why Luis' isn't doing so well emersed. There are quite a few moss that live in the zone where they are submersed/emersed depending on the water level Cinclodotus fontinaloides (very common in the Burren turloughs) is the one that comes to mind, but there are plenty more.
Via the BBS <http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Bryodiversity/vc45/vc45site.htm#aquatic>.
Aquatic or semi-aquatic, Cinclidotus fontinaloides, Racomitrium aciculare, Fontinalis antipyretica and Hyocomium armoricum, often submerged Conocephalum conicum, Lunularia cruciata, Bryum pseudotriquetrum and Schistidium apocarpum. Less often submerged, but wet Thuidium tamariscinum, Dicranella heteromalla, Amblystegium serpens and Lophocolea bidentata. Growing in or near waterfalls, Pellia epiphylla, Blindia acuta, Brachythecium rivulare and Hygrohypnum ochraceum.
You could look up the species mentioned above here: <http://www.bbsfieldguide.org.uk/content/racomitrium-aciculare> or for better quality images buy "Field guide to mosses and liverworts of Britain and Ireland" for £25. It lists about 65 species of Bryophyte as to a greater or lesser degree "aquatic". Here is the page for Leptodictyum riparium <http://www.bbsfieldguide.org.uk/content/leptodictyum-riparium>.
cheers Darrel
ghostsword
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That would explain it then..
