Scarning Fen
A splendid display off Ash Buds (Fraxinus excelsior)
White-tipped Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum diaphanum)
Lichen Sp
Lichen Sp
All of the above on Ash
Frizzled Pincushion (Plenogemma phyllantha)
Syntrichia Sp
Syntrichia Sp
Xygodon Sp
Witches Butter (Exidia glandulosa) on Oak
Lichen Sp on Apple
Lyell's Britle-moss (Pulvigera lyellii)
Straw Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum stramineum)
A stack of about 15 shots.
Frizzled Pincushion (Plenogemma phyllantha)
A very nice mixture on an Oak (Quercus robur) & Apple tree (Malus domestica)
Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans)
Comb-moss (Ctenidium molluscum)
An indicator moss of calcareous habitats.
In this case a calcareous fen.
Greasewort (Aneura pinguis)
A fuzzy green Algae Sp
Moon Poo - False Puffball (Lycoperdon reticularia)
Mueller's Pouchwort (Calypogeia muelleriana) complete with gemmae at the base on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
This last image is a stack of about 25 shots.
Frizzled Pincushion living up to its latin name (Plenogemma phyllantha)
Alder Carr (Alnus glutinosa)
A wonderful display of Great Scented Liverwort (Conocephalum conicum)
Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perannis) nestled in at the base of an Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Even Scalewort (Radula complanata)
Bluish Veilwort (Metzgeria violacea)
Dotted Thyme-moss (Rhozomnium punctatum)
White-tipped Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum diaphanum) nestled in a crack in the bark of a Willow (Salix Sp)
with an accompaniment of Minute Pouchwort (Myriocoleopsis minutissima)
Unopened Flower
6 stamens & six tepals or perianth segments.
There are three inner ones & three outer.
Three stigmas for each ovary.
Field Woodrush (Luzula campestris)
Dillington
Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)
Elf Cup Sp
Dilated Scalewort (Frullenia dilatata)
Town Hall Clock (Adoxa moschatellina)
A Hawthorn (Craetagus monogyna) growing through a SIlver Birch (Betulus Sp)
Lateral Cryphaea (Cryphea heteromalla)
A moss with shoot dimorphism.
The primary stem laying adpressed to the bark of a tree but the fruiting shoots projecting stiffly away from the bark.
Minute pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minutissima)
Enchnanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) broad basal leaves.
A splendid happy patterned partnership of Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata) {brown} and Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
This time fading into a Lichen Sp as well
The unmistakeable lime green of Bird's-claw beard-moss (Barbula unguiculata)
Dry, tightly rolled Hornschuch's Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium horschuchianum)
Probably Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) rather than a Lichen.
Troll's butter, spit of moon, fallen star, witch's jelly being among the panoply of names from Wikipedia.
The name going all the way back to Paracelsus 1493-1541
A combination of of the English 'nostril' and German "Nasenloch"
In other words
Snot Like
Mature sporophytes
Overleaf Pellia (Pellia epiphylla)
Monoicious - Male & female organs on the same thallus.
Even Scalewort (Radula complanata) with gemmae on the leaf margins.
Forked Scalewort (Metzgeria furcata)
A dioecious species
A well colonised & spectacular rootplate
A stump engulfed.
Wet woodland
Willow Moss (Fontanalis antipyretica)
Large mouse-tail Moss (Isothecium alopecuroides)