moss id

[low]

Please help to ID this moss.

Thankyou.

[ranmasatome]

Not that we don't want to help but moss can be terribly hard to ID. Its almost impossible to tell what species this is without using a microscope.

[yeoyl87]

http://www.aquamoss.net/Christmas-Mo...stmas-Moss.htm comparing one by one. Yours look like Xmas moss

[hwchoy]

hey who's that Tan SW at aquamoss? anyway being a party to the whole mossy business with Kwek Leong, Gan and the good Prof, I can assure you that most mosses can only be "reasonably" identified based on growth morphology. To be sure, as ranma said, you need to look at the leaf and cellular structures under a microscope.

[low]

Thanks all.

[besh]

it should be x'mas moss

[hwchoy]

christmas moss and Singapore moss exhibit very similar shape, especially hard to tell singly and by photograph. I once grew both side by side and it is truly hard to tell apart had I not known what they were to begin with. I mean they look different, but only when compared next to each other.

try to ID moss visually, caveat emptor.

[low]

Thanks all again