I'm gonna move to a cooler instance, wish me luck
| Languages? | Swedish, English (no, da, de) |
| Pronouns? | he/him |
| Location? | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Indie rock? | Just gimme |
@jensu
- 7 Followers
- 110 Following
- 369 Posts
I like gardening, biodiversity and iNaturalist. And music, I like music.
Il Fiore del Parmigiano
@[email protected] What, the common liverwort (M. polymorpha)? I know it often shows up in pots, but is it even a problem or is it just 'ugly'?
Yeah, I think those bowls are their asexual way of reproducing, they also have star-like male and female reproductive organs. Don't remember the terms for any of them though...
Looking for a good mountain to climb with the kids today (not metaphorically)! I love taking the kids out into the woods, but the 9yo hates it unless there are mountains involved 🙃
@mmmaria Jaa, alla dessa instruktionsvideor ja! Gärna med flera minuter nonsens i början som inte har ett dyft med själva instruktionen att göra. Kan folk inte läsa och skriva längre, eller vad är det frågan om?
@delve Great TED Talk! Peat moss has also been used for insulation and for dressing wounds, I believe. And in Swedish, many mosses have names like house moss, roof moss and wall moss, so I imagine they also have been used for insulation.
antifa supersoldier@jensu This is reminding me I need to pick up a copy of Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Gathering Moss". "Braiding Sweetgrass" by her was wonderful, so I'm sure "Gathering Moss" will be too.
Moss is seriously underappreciated stuff. In ecology, we love to talk about successional and pioneer species, but where does that succession start? It starts with mosses and lichens that can live on rocks and break them down into usable minerals for later plants.
Something else thing that pops into my mind that we can also thank moss for is a lot of our knowledge in anthropology. Pray tell, where do bog bodies come from again? Oh, yeah, that's right: peat bogs. Much of which is comprised of peat moss.
And one more neat thing I learned about moss (from Dr. Kimmerer IIRC) is that some Native American groups historically used dry moss as a diaper. Dry moss can apparently absorb up to 20 or 30 times its weight in water. Which is kinda amazing.
@Caffetino Very interesting, thank you
@delve Aww, I'll always be there for those little guys tbh
Soo... #Liverworts, anyone? Kinda like wonky mosses, but currently placed in their own phylum, Marchantiophyta. Most of them are not uncommon, but they're easily overlooked; small and bubbly guys that are really hard to photograph! Here are a few cool ones I've seen recently (names in img description):
#mosstodon
#mosstodon
