As soon as I joined a wide st. Leonard’s street on a gloomy late December day, green moss shimmered along the base of a shaded sandstone wall. There was plenty of opaque Tortula muralis but some areas of moss had glass-green transluscent leaves glinting with water droplets. It was dressed ready for a festive party […]
…of the year for one of my favourite liverworts and the first ever record for hectad TQ22. Nowellia curvifolia, or Cephalozia curvifolia as it is now known, has been found in 33 tetrads in Sussex. The most recent sighting before this was Brad’s, on rotten Pine in Brightling Park in July 2021. The day got […]
A couple of weeks ago, on a sunny Saturday, Brad and I visited Old Roar Ghyll in the middle of Hastings Town. Woodland gills in and around Hastings are well known for their unique moss and liverwort flora so we were very excited to visit. This deeply incised gill is surrounded by housing and although […]
There are a few intriguing old records from the area to the north-west of Bolney. They don’t have accurate grid references and only vague clues to the habitat or name of the wood or gill in which they were found. Dicranum montanum was recorded in Colwood in 1959 and Plagiothecium latebricola in Colwood Park in […]
Sussex Bryophytes 