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The 10th and final week of #couchto10mosses and it’s time for my favourite moss!! 
This ridiculously beautiful Christmas tree is common tamarisk moss (Thuidium tamariscinum) and it’s just the most special thing close up 
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This ridiculously beautiful Christmas tree is common tamarisk moss (Thuidium tamariscinum) and it’s just the most special thing close up (1/4)
(2/4) Tamarisk moss likes to grow in airy carpets on the damp, woodland floor. It has green/brown stems and is bi- or tri-pinnately branched, meaning each side branch has branches, which themselves can be branched (
) - it basically makes it look like a fern frond.
) - it basically makes it look like a fern frond.
(3/4) For comparison, here you have common feather moss (Kindbergia praelonga) on the left, which is less branched than tamarisk moss on the right.
(4/4) So that’s it for #couchto10mosses! I hope you feel as though you know at least one moss by name now, if not 10. They are truly beautiful creatures & while the devil’s in the detail, the commonest ones are fairly manageable once you stop & have a good look at them 
