Hello dear Hiveans, I wish everyone an exciting and fabulous day! I recently found an interesting moss species in the forest that looks very special and took some pictures of it that I would like to present.
It are often the inconspicuous things in nature that are more interesting than you might think. This type of moss is called haircap moss and the botanical name is Polytrichum and this genus includes about 100 different species or more that are distributed worldwide. Regardless of this genus, there are around 16,000 moss species around the globe.
In the pictures I share with you today you can see the species Polytrichum juniperinum. Depending on the Polytrichum species, this kind of moss can grow almost one meter high, but this is rarely the case, on average it grows between 10 and 40 cm.
In the most cases it grows wild in forests, but you can also find this moss in bog areas, often on nutrient-poor soils and it is also relatively widespread, in gardens you can also often see it artificially planted because it is very popular. It's very interesting that mosses usually do not have roots but spiremes threads and are also able to store a large amount of water.
Mosses are also often used in industry because they help against bacteria and snails and can therefore be processed as an alternative pesticide. From a useful point of view, moss is a great way to measure pollution because it reacts to pollutants in the air, for example, moss rarely grows near chimneys.
Thanks for reading and I hope you like my post and the pictures, I captured the pictures with my Sony Alpha 6000 and 55-210 mm lens!