sphagnum

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• Sphagnum samples were taken from the medium-long or outer branches of the capitulum.
• A fern-grass-sedge pampa covers the summit areas of the larger islands where moisture is retained in temporary pools and sphagnum moss. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
• Non-sterile cultures were performed in pots containing a 2: 2: 1 mixture of perlite, vermiculite, and sphagnum moss.
• He found a few others: a sphagnum moss peat bog can repel the invasion of pine trees for thousands of years.
• Sulphurous yellow sphagnum moss made a dayglo splash against the dull greens and browns of the sunless upland bog.
• Towards the bog's centre, 20-year-old pines reach heights of just three-feet, their growth stunted by the bog's acidic soils created by the sphagnum.
• Look for one containing vermiculite and perlite, sphagnum peat moss, a little ground bark and sand.
• Here we see the elusive and shy marsh gibbon, brachiating through the sphagnum swamps.
• Having prepared a number of earthenware jars, and a quantity of dry moss (different species of hypnum and sphagnum), he placed a layer of moss and of pears alternately, till the jar was filled; a plug was then inserted, and sealed around with melted rosin. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
• Moss, specifically sphagnum, is the lifeblood of any bog.