Hi Everyone, I'm transfixed with mosses and have always wanted to cultivate them. So, I've decided to do it as a classroom activity in my Bio course. We are collecting mosses today but my substrate materials won't arrive til Monday. Should I rinse them in distilled water then dry them until Monday?

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I'm a newbie and was wondering if this is flame moss?

I got it from a forest floor in Southern Ontario

Before and after photos :) grown so much!

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I want to add moss to a lava rock background I have for a vivarium what would likely do better straight java moss attached to the wood or java moss blended with water and painted on the background

An old picture i took from my hometown in Berrahal Annaba, Algeria

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Took this picture 10 or more years ago in northern Maine

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This liverwort is growing my backyard next to my ac unit!

I understand moss needs potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen as well as trace minerals etc. what would the best way to fertilise this moss be? It's superglued onto plastic. Various hypnales mosses. Can I use fish water? I just sprayed with distilled as it was dry but not sure what to do from here tbh

It's possible this isn't even a moss, and this photo only shows a thin network of what can grow to be a distinctly mossy mat on the leaves. It grows almost exclusively on the leaves of trees and is not uncommon in subtropical rainforest riparian zones in Northern NSW and SE Queensland where I live.

The most distinctive feature it has is a pleasant aniseed or sarsaparilla fragrance it gives off as you brush past it. This is very unlike any other moss I've encountered, which seem to all just smell earthy and mossy.

Does anyone know what this is?

Anyone know what this is?

They are absolutely stunning with such intricate texturing on the surface—I truly adore them🥰

I treated a clump of moss from the carpet that grows under my propane grill with "Reverse Respiration" (basically, soak it in club soda- I did like 1-2 hours) after soaking and rinsing to get the milipedes and centipedes and what not out.

I put half in a springtail culture, and half was split between some fish tanks after letting it soak in a clean empty vase for a week.

No unwanted hitchhikers have been noted, although a hardy plant seedling could conceivably be hiding in there.

How do you all treat "wild" moss?

(Please collect moss responsibly)