More Didymodon tomaculosus

 

A Section 7 moss it may be, but it clearly doesn't mind slumming it. This field of my neighbours near Redberth was semi-improved neutral grassland, but the planning system failed it and it's now scraped ground, soil piles and bonfire sites full of burnt old paint cans and Celotex off-cuts. The Didymodon tomaculosus took a bit of finding amongst the more predictable Pseudephemerum nitidum etc, but I eventually found a small patch. Some Microbryum davallianum with it was almost more of a surprise - there's only one other inland record in Pembs. Both Ephemerum serratum and Ephemerum minutissimum were on the site, and some Bryum klinggraeffii. The boundary stream in the background has, or had, Hygrocbye viola, Microglossum viride, Gibellula pulchra and a host of other nice fungi. It now has a suburban palisade fence right up against it to make the glamping pod occupants feel at home. Death by a thousand cuts.....