Moss
Common apple-moss
Bartramia pomiformis
ModerateFine in a closed jar
Blue-green tufts with round apple-like capsules on shady rock.
What the simulation uses
- Light
- 800 to 6,000 lux
- The brightness it grows well in.
- Humidity
- 70 to 95 % RH
- Air moisture it is happy in; below the lower end it dries out.
- Temperature
- 5 to 22 °C
- Comfortable range; outside it growth slows.
- Dies at
- below -25 or above 42 °C
- Days beyond these temperatures kill it.
- Soil pH
- 4.5 to 6 pH
- Soil acidity it prefers.
- Grows up
- 0.07 cm/month
- How fast it gains height in good conditions.
- Spreads
- 0.04 cm/month
- How fast its edge creeps outwards.
- Thickens
- 0.6 %/month
- How fast its cover fills in on its own ground.
- Copes with wet
- fair
- How well it stands soggy soil; poor means rot comes quickly.
- Copes with still air
- fair
- Sealed jars have still air; poor means grey mould finds it.
- Copes with shade
- good
- How well it holds on in dim light.
- Copes with drying
- fair
- How well it survives the jar drying out.
- Water use
- 0.035 ml/cm²/day
- Water that evaporates off the cushion each day in room air.
- Holds water
- 0.25 ml/cm²
- Water a cm² of moss soaks up and keeps.
- Grows on
- soil, stone
- Where it can take hold and spread. Moss that cannot grow on stone thins out there.
Care
- Day length
- 10 to 14 h
- Substrate
- Moist
What kills it
- waterlogging
- warmth
- drying
Description
In the wild it lives on humid, shaded ledges and banks, usually on acid rock. The leaves curl up when it gets too dry. Keep it cool and evenly damp, because heat, soggy soil and drying all hurt it.
Also called apple moss.
Estimated, where sources were thin: growth rate; temp_c.