South Wales Bryophytes

Couldn't resist bringing back a few holiday bryos last month, a good selection of British species which I managed to identify, including...

On the way back from St Davids (long weekend camping) I decided to pop to Lydstep to check out Sams Southbya tophacea colony he had recor...

Hannah had the pleasure of going back to Porthkerry today to photograph Southbya  (without disturbing it) with my new portable 'Dino...

Southbya tophacea is now well documented on this blog, thanks largely to Gareth and Hannah's efforts. However, as we were at East A...

Meesia uliginosa has only ever been seen in Wales at Tywyn Aberffraw - the best dune system for bryophytes in Wales because of its highly c...

Absence  of  evidence  is  not evidence of absence, or so the saying goes. Well in the case of Southbya tophacea , at least on the Glamorgan...

Both myself and Hannah have been scouring the cliffs of the Glamorgan coast now for the past two months identifying tufaceous seepgaes an...

A few more trips on the Glamorgan Coast over the last few weeks. Highlights include accidentally finding the most easterly record of the Ma...

the tufa cliff with Southbya is the rather messy looking grey area photographed 28th September 2011 Retrospective  post of the Ffonty...

I was down at Porthkerry Country Park with the family today, and couldn't resist a quick look at the base of the main coastal cliff (Bul...