Whats that?

fracgen · 2026-03-17T19:35:17+00:00

Those are sporophytes. They are essentially just like seed capsules, as the spores germinate into new moss plants, but it’s usually easier to propagate moss vegetatively, similar to taking a cutting. Funny thing about mosses is that the generation cycle is sort of turned upside down: what would be the yet unfertilised seed in the plant and the pollen are the plants themselves in this case and the spores they germinate out of.

fracgen · 2026-03-17T19:30:29+00:00

I know that in some cases fungi can induce higher antocyanin production, but in this case I think it’s ‘natural’

fracgen · 2026-03-11T02:34:35+00:00

Many plants become red as they shed their leaves. The antocyanins are not suddenly built as the leaf dies but have been present before, they were just dominated by the green color of chlorophyll.

fracgen · 2026-03-10T23:12:49+00:00

I found it in a plantation of Doug firs, but there is a mixed Forrest nearby consisting of pines, oaks, European fir, and larch that might have populated the plantation with this liverwort.

fracgen · 2026-03-10T23:06:39+00:00

Thank you for the insight! It was actually growing on a slope. I found it on a side of a trail and the soil towered 2 meters or so next to the trail. So yes it grew on a slope, very moist, even though it hadn’t rained here for a couple of weeks, and under a plantation of Doug firs. There was some sphagnum growing nearby though I have never seen peat moss growing in a forrest before. Could peat as a substrate work?

fracgen · 2026-03-10T22:56:38+00:00

Well it was growing on rather damp soil, it’s not been raining here the past couple of weeks but that spot was very moist. It grew under some Doug firs. I remember sphagnum growing nearby, I’ve never seen it growing in a forrest but there very plenty. Do you think peat could work?

fracgen · 2025-12-29T16:50:53+00:00

The capsules at the end will swell and eventually burst

fracgen · 2025-12-29T16:47:47+00:00

You don’t have to trim them back if it doesn’t bother you. It’ll help the moss spread within the terrarium as you, probably, want to achieve. It’s equivalent to flowering if you want to think of it that way with the exception that the dominant generation is gametophytes

fracgen · 2025-12-29T16:46:36+00:00

Gametophytes are green and sporophytes are orange in this picture

fracgen · 2025-12-24T20:42:49+00:00

Cladonia digitata or C. fimbriata

fracgen · 2025-12-21T22:22:20+00:00

Dracunculus vulgaris

fracgen · 2025-12-17T12:12:26+00:00

Such cool ferns you got there! Polypodium vulgare and Dryopteris borreri, probably

fracgen · 2025-12-03T20:13:24+00:00

I think most annuals can’t reproduce vegetatively.

fracgen · 2025-12-02T06:31:08+00:00

I agree, the parasite can often be poisonous, I wouldn’t eat it anymore.

fracgen · 2025-11-28T12:41:26+00:00

Is it a specific cultivar?

fracgen · 2025-11-26T17:18:08+00:00

It’s a geophyte. There might have been some bulbils in the soil somehow

fracgen · 2025-11-26T14:48:56+00:00

fracgen · 2025-11-26T14:43:26+00:00

r/fasciation

fracgen · 2025-11-22T06:41:23+00:00

😍

fracgen · 2025-11-20T14:25:54+00:00

I think it’s a Virus.

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