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- Determine Moose - tips for beginners
- Proper equipment simplifies identification
- Tips for collecting moss for home use
- Tips
Who wants to determine Moose, should collect a little of it and take it at home under the microscope
Determine Moose - tips for beginners
Moose are only superficially inconspicuous. In fact, the more than 25,000 species of mosses worldwide hold fascinating properties, coupled with unique survival strategies. Those who have been fascinated by the green cosmopolitans would like to define the multifaceted species in more detail. Here's how you get started as a beginner.
Proper equipment simplifies identification
Moose meet us in fields and forests, on mountain peaks and in the desert. Of course, the curiosity wants to be satisfied immediately when an unknown moss species catches the eye. To determine moss on site, the following equipment is helpful:
Furthermore, membership in a Bryological Association makes sense. Members have up-to-date information, literature, visual material and forums for the exchange of experience available, which enable a determination of mosses even without previous scientific knowledge.
Tips for collecting moss for home use
In order to determine a highly interesting moss at home, it should be collected and transported professionally. What you should pay attention to, we have put together here for you:
In order to avoid unnecessarily complicating the identification, the transport time should not exceed 2 hours, so that the rootless land plants do not dry out.
Tips
Have you collected and successfully determined moss? Then do not throw away the valuable plant material. Even when it has dried, grow a fresh green moss carpet from it. To do this, fill a bowl with a lean substrate, sprinkle the dry, crumbled moss on it, sprinkle it with water and put a plastic bag over it.