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Post by Sockhom on Dec 18, 2007 18:27:09 GMT
Hello . Here are some pictures of a red sphagnum species i found in east of France in late october: It might be Sphagnum rubellum but i'm far from being a cryptogamic specialist : ! Friendly,, François.
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Post by locko on Dec 18, 2007 22:39:49 GMT
Would be great if you could buy this stuff for a top dressing. Find any CP's in the area Francois?
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Post by stevestewart on Dec 18, 2007 23:44:15 GMT
Sockhom,
The trick is to claim that this moss is Sphagnum rubellum and then the crytboganic experts will either not say anything (because you are correct with the ID) or they will jump in and post, telling you (and all of us other life long students of botany) it must be some other species (hopefully giving you (and the rest of us) the correct specific name) because of your location or some small feature in this beautiful moss they can see! Beautiful moss! I hope you got a small pinch for your collection, to grow it!
Take care, Steve
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Post by BarryRice on Dec 28, 2007 20:00:21 GMT
Imagine my surprise when a botanist emailed me to tell me that one of the Sphagnum mosses in one of my trip reports was a very rare species, Sphagnum portoricense: www.sarracenia.com/trips/vanj2002/im16.htmlI love Sphagnum photos, and often find myself "wasting" time at carnivorous plant sites photographing the moss instead! Two of my favorite Sphagnum images are below: The above is at a bog in Connecticut. Great colors, huh? That shows moss in North Carolina being sexually reproductive, a rare phenomenon for Sphagnum. Cheers Barry
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Post by Aidan on Dec 28, 2007 20:34:03 GMT
That shows moss in North Carolina being sexually reproductive, a rare phenomenon for SphagnumXXX hardcore sporophyte-bearing gametophytes! ;D I see this in my garden most years.
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Post by wadave on Jan 15, 2008 6:54:04 GMT
Great shots Francois, I'm a little like Barry in that nice lush sphagnum fascinates me, I remember walking on a really thick mat of it long ago when I was a kid. I also remember the strange sensations of the whole mound undulating as I walked around on it's spongy surface. Until recently I had only ever seen green sphagnum and was blown away to see the red variety. Then funnily enough a short while later some sphagnum which was innocenlty growing in a pot of pings I had sitting in my little terrarium started to turn red. Was this some strange metaphysical transformation created by my new awareness of the existence of the red form of sphagnum? Dave.
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Post by rsivertsen on Jan 15, 2008 13:05:33 GMT
In the NJ Pine Barrens, there are dozens of red varieties of sphagnum, some even a deep purple in color, from small turions to large coarse forms, and another few red forms further north in a mountaintop bog/pond in Orange County, New York.
In these locations, you can see a few isolated green turions scattered in the mounds and carpets that sphagnum forms, or isolated red forms in the green mounds.
Light plays a factor, but the cool temperatures seem to be the critical factor in bringing out the red colors, even in other plants.
In a few of these places, there is a S. purpurea that is all red, nearly purple, and in one shpagnum mound these seedlings were difficult to spot as their color blended in with the red sphagnum so well.
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Post by vraev on Jan 18, 2008 4:40:20 GMT
I have sphagnum rubellium. I got it from a friend who works in bogs in qubec canada. He sent me a small sample of it. It seems very very very good for neps. its very stringy keeping the media not soppy but actually nice and damp. However...coming back to the point. The sphag that is growing from this blood red sample is all green inspite of the light I am growing it under. I guess there is a multitude of conditions that determines the color.
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Post by Richard Davion on Oct 24, 2010 16:12:04 GMT
www.vcu.edu/csbc/chiu/research/wlc-gunnera.html"I"-'Think'-I've Found R-Head-UP Regarding Your RED-Sphagnum Connundrum, so-to-Speak. It's-Likely as-R Result of Iron / Nitrogen Deficiency and-IS probably The-Moss's_Way of Enticing UNION with Cyanobacteria!!! >(*U^)< This-Appears to-Be Consistent with Research from Last-Century that Said that That RED-Sphagnum was Always Associated with The-HIGHEST Environmental Calcium-Levels. Calcium Sequesters or 'Locks'-UP Iron Yielding R-Kind of Nitrogen-Deficiency. You-'Should' Notice that The-RED Sphagnum is Always Coming-away from patches of Almost Yellow-White IE The Moss is-Becoming 'Chlorotic' ... This-Is Probably The-Most Significant-'Key' to-Its Elucidation!!! >(*U^)< NOW-Fellahs ... It's YOUR-Turn to-Test-It Ie The-Idea by Making-Yourselves Some RED-Sphagnum &-Then Seeing What-Happens When-You 'Apply' Some Cyanobacteria to-It!!! >(*U^)<
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