How To Use Sphagnum In A Sentence
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Sphagnum samples were taken from the medium-long or outer branches of the capitulum.
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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
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Non-sterile cultures were performed in pots containing a 2: 2: 1 mixture of perlite, vermiculite, and sphagnum moss.
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He found a few others: a sphagnum moss peat bog can repel the invasion of pine trees for thousands of years.
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Sulphurous yellow sphagnum moss made a dayglo splash against the dull greens and browns of the sunless upland bog.
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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.
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Look for one containing vermiculite and perlite, sphagnum peat moss, a little ground bark and sand.
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Here we see the elusive and shy marsh gibbon, brachiating through the sphagnum swamps.
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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
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Moss, specifically sphagnum, is the lifeblood of any bog.
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Rotted cow manure, compost, shredded sphagnum, granulated peat moss, sawdust and ground corncobs are some materials that may be worked thoroughly into the soil.
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Look for one containing vermiculite and perlite, sphagnum peat moss, a little ground bark and sand.
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Last summer she'd been with Ida and Miss Dennison, gathering sphagnum moss on the moors.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Last summer she'd been with Ida and Miss Dennison, gathering sphagnum moss on the moors.
THE GOLDEN LION
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The upper portion of the archegonial wall is carried up as a calyptra on the sporogonium, which, as in _Sphagnum_, has no seta and is raised on a pseudopodium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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From pillows of sphagnum that over millennia have built up this extraordinary place, carmine glitter of round-leaved sundew attracts the eye, slowly digesting its captured insect-life.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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Dress with hormone powder and wedge open with a pad of damp sphagnum moss.
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The study team calculates these plants would have produced about six times more methane than today's bog-dwelling plants such as sphagnum moss.
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Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there -- the high-blueberry, panicled andromeda, lamb-kill, azalea, and rhodora -- all standing in the quaking sphagnum.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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The peat soil supports blanket bog vegetation dominated by carpets of Sphagnum mosses, cotton-grasses and heather.
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Clean and sow immediately or store in moist sphagnum moss in your refrigerator and plant in early spring.
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They are used commercially to treat seedlings before setting them in the field to reduce shock.] (6) Use no medium, such as sphagnum moss, for the roots because it is unnecessary and causes a lot of fuss with the plant inspectors.
4: Multipurpose trees
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They may grow on bark, sphagnum moss, cork plaques or in gravel or charcoal.
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The wet and cool oceanic climate readily supports fast-growing Sphagnum mosses, peat-forming processes and development of peat landforms.
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This is two distinct types of moss, the smaller "jellied" one being one of the dozens of types of sphagnum mosses found in the Northeast.
Little Bang Theory
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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
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Rotted cow manure, compost, shredded sphagnum, granulated peat moss, sawdust and ground corncobs are some materials that may be worked thoroughly into the soil.
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Some of the smaller plants that grow here are fire snag, wild rose, Labrador tea, bearberry, sedges, eriacaceous shrubs, cottongrass, moss, sphagnum moss, feathermoss, bog cranberry, and blueberry.
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Fill the pot with a mix of equal volumes of sphagnum and perlite, and moisten the mix.
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From pillows of sphagnum that over millennia have built up this extraordinary place, carmine glitter of round-leaved sundew attracts the eye, slowly digesting its captured insect-life.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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For alkaline soil, ample addition of an acidic organic matter such as sphagnum peat moss is beneficial.
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I bend forward, stretch out my fingers, and bury them deeply in the purple cushion of sphagnum moss.
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But I certainly wasn't going to complain, especially when he retreated to the "prop range," the Botanic Garden greenhouse where hundreds of species were growing—the BBG boasts 1,600 species—to retrieve some Chilean sphagnum moss.
Where Expertise Blooms
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Simple wire baskets are by far the best and should be line, with sphagnum moss (not polythene, which is often used today) before being filled with a-peaty compost.
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Most peat is made up of peat moss, or sphagnum, but it often includes other kinds of vegetation, such as trees and even animal remains.
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Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
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Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
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Common sphagnum bog herbs are bunchberries, sundews (Drosera sp.) and bog orchids.
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In _Sphagnum_, as in _Anthoceros_, the archesporium is derived from the amphithecium; in all other mosses it is the outermost layer of the endothecium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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I have an extremely vague recollection of Jerry in some interview or other mentioning "The Nursery Frieze," the Gorey work consisting of a long series of animals of indeterminate species, each uttering a single, odd word, like "sphagnum" ... "orrery" ... deadsongs. vue.168
The WELL: Ripple
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In _Sphagnum_, as in _Anthoceros_, the archesporium is derived from the amphithecium; in all other mosses it is the outermost layer of the endothecium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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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
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Many plants and fish will not thrive as well when the water pH goes much beyond 7.6-7.8, so you might have to use peat or sphagnum to acidify the water a bit and bring the pH back down to more ideal levels.
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It is very surprising to find certain relict habitats related to the northern European freshwater ecosystems, such as sphagnum peat bogs, and birch (Betula pendula) copses.
Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
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He found a few others: a sphagnum moss peat bog can repel the invasion of pine trees for thousands of years.
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The nest was located at the edge of a small open pool surrounded by cattails adjacent to a sedge and sphagnum-dominated lakeside fen.
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The upper portion of the archegonial wall is carried up as a calyptra on the sporogonium, which, as in _Sphagnum_, has no seta and is raised on a pseudopodium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Sphagnum peat is lightweight when air-dried and can be compressed a lot.
The Sun
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We are in a side valley that you don't see from the main axis of Farndale, a roadless quiet, a place of stream and pale grasses, sphagnum moss, crags, heather and seas of bilberry.
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Some of the smaller plants that grow here are fire snag, wild rose, Labrador tea, bearberry, sedges, eriacaceous shrubs, cottongrass, moss, sphagnum moss, feathermoss, bog cranberry, and blueberry.
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Materials needed to assemble your terrarium include gravel for drainage; sphagnum moss to keep the soil from sifting into the drainage area; potting mix without fertilizer; and accessories like gravel, miniature animals — whatever items that add a touch of whimsy to your terrarium.
Terrarium Day at Sugar Creek « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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Soilless mixes are ideal - they contain sphagnum peat, vermiculite and perlite.
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The wetland is a large sedge- and sphagnum-dominated lakeside fen and cattail marsh that supports one of the most diverse wetland bird communities in the state.
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For he had often spent an hour in the place with the doctor, collecting buckthorn and coral-moss, curious lichens, sphagnum, and the round, and long-leaved sundews, or butterwort: for all these plants abounded here, with the bramble and bracken.
The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
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The typical habitat seems to be acidic fens and sphagnum bogs with open pools.
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In _Sphagnum_, as in _Anthoceros_, the archesporium is derived from the amphithecium; in all other mosses it is the outermost layer of the endothecium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Dress with hormone powder and wedge open with a pad of damp sphagnum moss.
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Sphagnum peat moss and sand can be added to amend heavy soils.
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The other harvested forms are sphagnum moss, humus and hypnum moss.
Peat
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Areas with persistently high water tables generally have Sphagnum spp. as the predominant ground cover, with Eriophorum virginicum L., Juncus acuminatus Michx., and J. effusus as important emergents.
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Some porous material such as sphagnum moss or excelsior (as here) is put on the open bottom and the flat watered by allowing it to stand in a sink or tub for
Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
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Potting mixes often contain sphagnum peat moss from bogs in Canada or Ireland.
Inflation Gets Right Down to the Real Nitty-Gritty « Isegoria
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Fill the base with gravel, place the potted plants on top of the gravel and cover the surface with sphagnum moss or osmunda fibers.
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Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there — the high blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora — all standing in the quaking sphagnum.
Walking
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Azaleas require highly acidic soil - such as sphagnum peat moss amended with gypsum and perhaps limestone.
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On an exceptionally warm fall day, my wife and I went for a walk at a nature preserve, a mixed area of open sphagnum bogs and glacially derived sand dunes, now overgrown with white pine and hardwoods.
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Both ponds are dystrophic, surrounded by extensive mats of Sphagnum, and stratified in summer with anoxic hypolimnia.
