Category Archives: Bryophytes

Mosses & Liverworts of Whiteknights: 3. Saxicolous Mosses

Posted on 2015/02/22 by David

3. Saxicolous Mosses This is the fourth in a series of posts exploring the mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) of Whiteknights campus. My first three posts described the rich flora of bryophytes growing on trees (epiphytes) on campus. In this post … Continue reading →

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Mosses & Liverworts of Whiteknights: 2. Epiphytic Liverworts

Posted on 2015/02/13 by David

2. Epiphytic Liverworts This is the third in a series of posts exploring the mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) of the Whiteknights campus. My first two posts introduced some common and not so common mosses of trees (epiphytes), and this post will … Continue reading →

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Mosses and Liverworts of Whiteknights: More Epiphytic Mosses

Posted on 2015/02/03 by David

This is the second in a series of posts exploring the mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) of Whiteknights campus. My first post covered epiphytic mosses and I promised there to introduce liverworts next. However, having found four more epiphytic mosses I have gotten myself … Continue reading →

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Mosses & Liverworts of Whiteknights: 1. Epiphytic Mosses

Posted on 2015/01/29 by David

1. Epiphytic Mosses Since the onset of winter I have been out with my nose to trees and paths looking at the moss and liverwort flora of Whiteknights. This is the first in a series of blog posts describing some of the species I have … Continue reading →

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Lichen exploration on campus

Posted on 2014/10/14 by Fay Newbery

Whiteknights is an amazing teaching resource. Recently I led a lichen ‘walk’ for the Reading District Natural History Society from the car-park in front of the Harborne Building. I’ve put ‘walk’ in inverted commas because we really didn’t walk very … Continue reading →

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