#Mosses in the city can perfectly live together with human architecture. They should be cultivated wherever possible and not be seen as a sign of decay.
Here a nice example of thriving moss on an exhaust air vent of a university building.
1/Preparing a special episode of my podcast #NatureMatchCuts about #mosses, I thought: This will be a very short episode for the "green stuff" on #Mosstodon. But hey, I dive into a wonderworld!
Of course, I'll talk about Robin Wall Kimmerer who changed my perspective on mosses profoundly. But there's so much more! You will appreciate #moss much more. Today, I research Neanderthals and Oetzi, traditional medicine, wildfires, and mosses' weird sex life. I'm so fascinated by the tiny "green stuff"!
"Almost one-fifth of bryophytes – the plant group that includes mosses, liverworts and hornworts – in Great Britain are threatened with extinction, according to a new red list assessing their conservation status."
Found this apparently completely dried piece of lichen on a rock, scattered by black bears when foraging.
I took it home, watered it all over, and put it in a small cup.
The second photo, taken 24 hours after watering, shows how quickly lichens and mosses recover after a rain.