This is the most prevalent moss I saw on those mossy rocks (from yesterday's post).
Tiny green moss with frozen tips. |
In the shade and along the edges, where the sun had just managed to reach the moss, each little plant carried this fringe of ice crystals on the thread-like tips of the leaves. As it dries, it starts to turn brown, and wears a fringe of white fur.
This, I think, is Hoary rock moss, aka Woolly Fringe-moss, Racomitrium lanuginosum. The leaves are up to 3 mm. long, and each ends in a short, clear bristle, which gives it that wooly look.
Zooming in, about half the length of each leaf is green; the rest is that white bristle tip.
Sun-warmed moss. |
This, I think, is Hoary rock moss, aka Woolly Fringe-moss, Racomitrium lanuginosum. The leaves are up to 3 mm. long, and each ends in a short, clear bristle, which gives it that wooly look.
One moss plant, one pixie-cup lichen, |
Zooming in, about half the length of each leaf is green; the rest is that white bristle tip.
Lichens tomorrow.
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Estos son los musgos más comunes que cubren las rocas de las fotos que subí ayer.
- Un musgo muy pequeño, aquí con las puntas de las hojas congeladas. En la sombra, y a los bordes, donde el sol apenas les había llegado a alumbrar, cada plantita llevaba cristales de hielo en los hilos que forman la punta de cada hojita.
- Aquí, ya les calentó el sol. Esto, creo, es el musgo "Lanudo" Racomitrium lanuginosum. Las hojas miden hasta los 3mm. y cada una termina con un pelo semi-transparente, lo que da al conjunto esa apariencia como de lana.
- Muy de cerca: una plantita de musgo, una taza de liquen "copa de duende".
Mañana, sigo con los líquenes.
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