Professional growers as well as hobbyists have long debated the best materials with which to pot their beloved orchids. For decades, the potting mediums of choice were osmunda fiber or various bark ...

Field measurements of tissue moisture content (% dry weight) and growth rates (mm yr-1) of Sphagnum mosses were taken during two growing seasons in a subarctic bog near Fairbanks, Alaska. Sphagnum ...

ST. LOUIS, MO, October 9, 2024 - Plant scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have been awarded a four-year National Science Foundation ...

(WKOW) — The marshes of west central Wisconsin are prime for growing long fibered sphagnum moss; a perennial plant with unique water retention and anti-bacterial attributes. Mosser Lee Company ...

Figure 1: Initial methane oxidation rates of Sphagnum mosses. To document the microbial nature of the methane oxidation, the specific methane mono-oxygenase inhibitor, acetylene, was added to the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background Despite the general assumption that nitrogen fixed by associated cyanobacteria will be readily utilised for growth by the Sphagnum, ...

Q. What are the best soil amendments to improve soils for planting vegetables and landscape plants? A. It is always difficult to name the best items because it does depend on soil types, the size of a ...

Plants may seem sedate and nonviolent, but that may be because most people do not take ultra-high-speed videos of them. Dwight L. Whitaker, a physicist at Pomona College in California and Joan Edwards ...

It’s not Armageddon, just moss reproduction. On sunny days, scientists now realize, mushroom-shaped clouds routinely explode out of beds of sphagnum moss. Researchers captured the very tiny, very fast ...

Specimen of Sphagnum not adapted for surgical use. Described in catalog record as: "Sphagnum moss, in gelatin envelope, not adapted for surgical dressing on account of being coarse and hard. The genus ...