Moss
Common feather-moss
Kindbergia praelonga
BeginnerFine in a closed jar
Soft feathery carpets that spread fast in damp shade.
What the simulation uses
- Light
- 800 to 10,000 lux
- The brightness it grows well in.
- Humidity
- 70 to 100 % 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
- 5 to 6.5 pH
- Soil acidity it prefers.
- Grows up
- 0.04 cm/month
- How fast it gains height in good conditions.
- Spreads
- 0.35 cm/month
- How fast its edge creeps outwards.
- Thickens
- 5 %/month
- How fast its cover fills in on its own ground.
- Copes with wet
- good
- How well it stands soggy soil; poor means rot comes quickly.
- Copes with still air
- good
- 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
- 0.04 ml/cm²/day
- Water that evaporates off the cushion each day in room air.
- Holds water
- 0.22 ml/cm²
- Water a cm² of moss soaks up and keeps.
- Grows on
- soil, wood
- 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
- drying
- heat above ~25 C
Description
It is one of the most common mosses in Britain, found in moist, shady lowland spots. In a humid tank it makes an easy carpet. Keep it damp and cool, as drying and heat above about 25 °C set it back.
Also called Eurhynchium praelongum, Stokesiella praelonga, feather moss.
Estimated, where sources were thin: growth rate; temp_c.