Trying to see a difference between both species but they more or less look the same, has anyone grown both and noticed any differences in growth habits or care? Does Subwassertang get taller and grow faster? Im looking for a liverwort that’s larger than my Riccardia chamedryfolia, but one that stays tidy and bushy if such species exists!
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Is Subwassertang much different to Monosolenium tenerum?
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simon_the_plant_nerd
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Suswassertang I believe is a gametophyte of a fern with some sort of genetic mutation that prevents it ever turning into a fern. It just floats around looking like a macro algae forever.
Monoselenium is a true liverwort however.
Monoselenium is a true liverwort however.
Fishfur
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Not sure how much it’ll help but Mono & Susswassertang look & grow so similarly that I suspect even experts in the field would have difficulty telling them apart.
Grow either under bright enough light & you get billowy cushions with wide, rounded ‘leaves’, though they both have thalli of course, not true leaves. Give them less light & both change to a narrow ribbonlike form with very irregular forking. Both will roll around gently on the bottom, piling up against any obstacle like windblown autumn leaves & grow incredibly slowly even in very dark conditions.
I think one has to be an expert to have any hope of telling them apart & I consider them to be functionally identical.
You might try looking at Cameroon ‘moss’, which is a very attractive liverwort that has leaves & can be grown more or less however you wish or perhaps Blepharostoma trichophyllum, aka ‘mini Rose moss’ which is also a liverwort and a really nice one.
Grow either under bright enough light & you get billowy cushions with wide, rounded ‘leaves’, though they both have thalli of course, not true leaves. Give them less light & both change to a narrow ribbonlike form with very irregular forking. Both will roll around gently on the bottom, piling up against any obstacle like windblown autumn leaves & grow incredibly slowly even in very dark conditions.
I think one has to be an expert to have any hope of telling them apart & I consider them to be functionally identical.
You might try looking at Cameroon ‘moss’, which is a very attractive liverwort that has leaves & can be grown more or less however you wish or perhaps Blepharostoma trichophyllum, aka ‘mini Rose moss’ which is also a liverwort and a really nice one.
