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Moss identification, help please
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zozo
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My best guess is Fontinalis.. 🙂 Which one?? Where did you get it??
Tim Harrison
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Fontinalis antipyretica
zozo
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It kinda looks like a Fontanilis and moss can be very versatile in grow form, depending on the inveronment it grows in... Mosses are rather difficult sometimes to identify..
If i compare your picture to the antipyretica i'm growing it doesn't realy look the same, yours look indeed smaller and more ridgid.. Maybe it's Fontinalis hypnoides?
🙂
If i compare your picture to the antipyretica i'm growing it doesn't realy look the same, yours look indeed smaller and more ridgid.. Maybe it's Fontinalis hypnoides?
🙂
Tim Harrison
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Yeah that's very true Marcel...often the only way to be sure is to get them in to lab and look at them through a microscope.
zozo
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Indeed Troi and then even the very trained bryologists still get confused sometimes.. You definitively need a well illustrated field guide as well, to know what to look for. If you are into this stuff this might help you along.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/271800777174?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
I red very good reviews on this work, not yet decided if i wan to have it myself.. Also still availble unused and new, but rather very expensive.. 🙂
I red very good reviews on this work, not yet decided if i wan to have it myself.. Also still availble unused and new, but rather very expensive.. 🙂
Tim Harrison
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Looks like a great field guide. It's sold on Amazon too, although there is a slight price difference😱 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Plants-World-Identification-Macrophytes/dp/9061930243
P.S. just bought it...not that one, one much much cheaper.
P.S. just bought it...not that one, one much much cheaper.
zozo
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I might need to be quick then, if i wanna have it.. 🙄 now it's in the open.. 
In used form it's not that often offered for sale. A new edition is realy a bit over the top expensive. But i'm not in the field that much anymore, so i still haven't made up my mind what use it would be for me on the bookshelf as wanna have. 🙂
In used form it's not that often offered for sale. A new edition is realy a bit over the top expensive. But i'm not in the field that much anymore, so i still haven't made up my mind what use it would be for me on the bookshelf as wanna have. 🙂
Tim Harrison
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I collect books anyway, especially anything that's old and to do with natural history...sorry for hijacking the thread.
zozo
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Nice build, compliments.. 🙂
But old natural history? Then you definitely must know "Sir Izaak Walton - The compleat Angler" if you don't look it up it's a fun read, writen in 1563 and unchanged reprinted.
Indeed we're hijacking this thread..
Sorry.. 
So you're a bit like me, tho i do not have that many books, but what i have you need to look very hard to find any fiction.. Only collect historical, scientific and or educative literature etc.
But old natural history? Then you definitely must know "Sir Izaak Walton - The compleat Angler" if you don't look it up it's a fun read, writen in 1563 and unchanged reprinted.
Indeed we're hijacking this thread..
Sorry..
Tim Harrison
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I do know the book but never read it. Maybe we should start another thread.
zozo
Member
I was kinda thinking the same, a sticky thread with references a.o. reviews to good books about natural history or just nature and biology in general. Many books are digitaly found at google books to read for free.. Who knows what people come up with. 🙂 Only needs throughly moderation to check for copyrights etc. As i lately found 2nd edition of Walstad completely online in pdf.. No idea if it's legal, but it's there. 🙂
Tim Harrison
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Not a bad idea, I'd be up for moderating that maybe worth investigating further.
Although like you said could be a potential legal nightmare figuring out copy rights etc so best to keep to sources already recognised as legal. Either way it'd probably work well as just a review guide.
Although like you said could be a potential legal nightmare figuring out copy rights etc so best to keep to sources already recognised as legal. Either way it'd probably work well as just a review guide.
zozo
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I have no idea about legal rights and how it could affect the forums integrity, since youtube as widely accepted and not always legal as well.. Who's responsebility is it in the first place seen from that perspective.. Youtube's, google books or the forum.. I guess it's the same as happens now, youtube is responsable to check contents and take it down, as google books would be as source. There are many works, papers of field and lab studies etc. to be found on google books.. Anyway i have no clue how this all works with legality issues on the net and end responsibility when linking it in a sticky.. I have no idea if Diana Waldstad approves of it, that here 2nd eddition is freely to be found with in googling 2 minutes. Because of these doubts i didn't post the link at this forum...
