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Matt Stribley

@mattstrib.bsky.social
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Enjoy bryophytes, botany, nature, art and life. Be kind and considerate. Sometimes on my Brompton.

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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 19h
Riccia huebeneriana seen in great abundance at Stithians reservoir today. We recorded only a few rosettes at this site in 2023 - an increasing population?
View of the drawdown zone, stream to the right, looking into the distance, blue sky with a few clouds. Showing cracked mud in the foreground with plants, 30 or more rosettes of Riccia huebeneriana on a firm muddy substrate. No other vegetation presentshowing a single rosette on Riccia huebeneriana
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lenticulars bookending the day in Wester Ross.
Clouds above hills and the seaClouds above an island
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Dr Marcus Rhodes @marcusrhodes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Brilliant to see this spotlight on Fal Rivers to Reef - one of the transformational projects that has emerged out of the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Nature Recovery Strategy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river
A local initiative is testing simple ways to stop algal blooms in the River Fal threatening some of England’s most biodiverse marine habitats
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Goonown Growers where I volunteer. Both Male and Lady fern enjoying the tool shed as well as the tools!
View of the inside of a tool shed with ferns growing along side the tools
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Riccia glauca, Glaucous Crystalwort on a path edge in the wonderful Potager Garden in Cornwall.
close up photo showing Glaucous Crystalwort plant
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out for you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find." ~ Franz Kafka 🎨 Stanislav Zhukovsky (1927)
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Dr Mark Williamson @markrwilliamson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Spend less time with people where you need to put on a show & more time with people where you can be yourself
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Mosses and ferns @fernymoss.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Delighted to come across a bright green colony of Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata) covering a rock mid-stream today. Devon woodland #liverwort #bryophyte
A bright green leafy liverwort (bryophyte) forming a dense mat across the upper surface of a small rock in a shallow woodland stream. The rock sits mid-channel, with softly blurred flowing water to the left of the image.

The liverwort spreads outward in overlapping shoots, each only a few millimetres long, creating a low, irregular carpet across the rock surface, roughly the size of a hand.

Individual shoots show paired leaves arranged in two rows along the stem, giving a flattened appearance. The leaf tips are divided into two small pointed lobes (bifid), with slightly toothed edges that catch the light.

The leaves overlap like tiny tiles, holding moisture, and appear slightly translucent and glossy where wet.

Other darker green bryophytes are interwoven beneath and around the colony, but the Bifid Crestwort stands out as a fresher, brighter green layer on top.

The scene is partially shaded, with light filtering in and reflecting softly off the wet leaves and nearby water, emphasising the hydrated, thriving condition of the plant.

Liverworts, moss, and hornworts are all bryophytes, small plants that live where moisture lingers.
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It's so real...
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Here's a photomicrograph of the very small #liverwort Toothed Pouncewort (Drepanolejeunea hamatifolia) from West #Cornwall. It's very small and I didn't have my camera to photograph in situ! It's a temperate rainforest species.
Photomicrograph of Toothed Pouncewort Photomicrograph of Toothed Pouncewort
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Some wonderful mosses and ferns along the River Fowey today.
The Pocket moss Fissidens polyphyllus on rocks beside the river. A carpet of Tunbridge filmy fern, Hymenophyllum tunbrigense, on rocks above the riverThe River Fowey flowing swiftly over rocks and through woodland.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Zack on Bold Politics podium
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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🍃NEW EPISODE: "We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social shatters an entrenched myth around human nature in less than 90 seconds. Listen to the full episode of It’s Bloody Complicated, out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.
Image of a big with water and red moss in the foreground and conifer trees in the background. Photo of sundews on moss.
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Ravens having a little chat on Truro Cathedral.
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Spring Squill, Scilla verna on sea cliff in Cornwall. #Wildflowerhour
View of plants in short turf on coastal slope. And close up showing the blue flower.
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I decided to decorate my simnel cake in a cheery, colourful way this year. A few flowers from the garden make all the difference.
A decorated round cake on a wooden board.
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Here is a young plant of Wild Celery (Apium graveolens) growing on the path edge, River side walk, #Truro. A reventment with more plants is on the opposite side of the footpath. Tidal Truro River beside Tesco carpark.
Showing the plant growing in block paving joints and at the base of a block work wall.
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A symmetrical pattern, well almost; with Clustered feather-moss (Rhynchostegium confertum) and Winter heliotrope (Petasites fragrant). Wall top, Truro.
Showing the moss forming a patch on smooth grey surface, spreading in a semi-circular pattern, which is mirrored. Will the plant above and it's rounded leaves are almost mirrored, giving a symmetrical appearance.
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bawdy Greek jokes and Edwardian treats in today's pteridomanic @theguardian.com country diary by Sara Hudston. (Think I just made up a word...) #countrydiary #naturewriting
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Country diary: They look like tiny green toenails. So why the name ‘maidenhair’ spleenwort? Sara Hudston
Bridport, Dorset: The common fern’s name was inspired by another phase of its life cycle, when fronds die off and spindly threads of stem remain in luxuriant, wiry tufts
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Jo Wilbraham @jowilbraham.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I'm thrilled to share news of my new book - Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of the World - which is now available for pre-order at some book shops and will hit the streets in August. Published by Princeton University Press: tinyurl.com/Mosses-of-th...
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Lovely, made me smile.
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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Mexican Tree Fern, Cibotium schiederei in #Cambridge #BotanicGarden for #FernFriday, worthy of a Celtic craftsman.
Close up photo of a coiled fern crosier.
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Wild daffodils in a Cornish hedge and an unusal pinkish coloured Barren Strawberry in woodland, Liskeard, from yesterday's roam. #wildflowerhour
Wild daffodils in a cornish hedge. Barren Strawberry with pink petals in woodland
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Illuminous moss, Schistostega pennata Goblin gold in the Cornish hedges near Liskeard today. Always nice to find. Difficult to photograph as tucked back in earth hollows. #bryophyte #moss
Photograph of the moss Schistostega pennata Goblin gold
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
Photo of a landscape at dawn or dusk wuth hills a small building and a chimney in silhouette against a golden sky, above the chimney are a mass of birds flying in a large group resembling the shape of a tall whisp of smoke
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Let us not look for you only in memory, Where we would grow lonely without you. You would want us to find you in presence, Beside us when beauty brightens." ~ John O'Donohue The Gathering of Daffodils 🎨 Harold Harvey
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bbsbryology.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Second day of BBS Spring Field Meeting. Spring Wood, Kettlewell, was a rich site with some lovely plants including the limestone crevice specialists Pedinophyllum interruptum, Orthothecium intricatum, and Mnium marginatum.
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen." ~ Blaise Pascal Flowers in a Vase (1873) 🎨 Paul Cezanne
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Light green patch of the liverwort Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort) on lawn/path edge in municipal gardens. The area is regularly sprayed with Roundup. Accompanied by Phaeoceros laevis (Smooth Hornwort) and Crescent-cup Liverwort. #bryophyte #liverwort
close up photograph of Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort)view showing a tarmac path and low bank with a patch of Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort) showing a patch of Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort)
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Helen Warlow @hippychick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thanks everyone. Back Later. Here is a wonderful collection of apple names and varieties. Helen🌷🐝📚
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Helen Warlow @hippychick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
‘Alex’ by Vicky Sawyer. She was the first artist to adorn animals etc with headdresses
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
French President Emmanuel Macron says US and Ukraine should be compensated by Russia, not by Ukraine. Russia started the war 👏
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Helen Warlow @hippychick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
John Bratby R.A.(1928-1992 Amaryllis. Lino cut artist
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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Sphagnum tenellum can get quite large and quite orange when growing in richer and wetter habitats #moss #bryophyte
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Helen Warlow @hippychick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Geraldine Girvan Oil On Linen. Fabulous colour palette.
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties." ~ John Muir The Early Spring in Finland 🎨 Arkady Rylov (1905)
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I visited a site near me where both Ditrichum subulatum Awl-leaved Ditrichum and Cephaloziella Turner Turner’s Threadwort grow. On the a soil bank at edge of Calenick Creek, Truro. Just about the high water mark. Very small plants, don’t show well in these phone pictures. Both had sporophytes.
Showing Awl leaved Ditrichum sporophytes Close up showing the moss and liverwort View of creek side habitat. With a vertical soil bank at back of foreshore about 1m highGeneral view of Calenick Creek. The tide is out and mud flats are showing. Salt marsh in the foreground
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Helen Warlow @hippychick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A beautiful photograph for folks who Need uplifting and some peace! Back tomorrow. Helen 🐝🌷📚
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A great opinion piece. Huge respect and love for our international healthcare community who choose to come and serve us here. Thank you 🙏 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris
My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
These Lesser Celandine plants gave me a moment of joy today.
Lesser Celandine plant flowering Closeup photo of a Lesser Celandine flower
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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A hybrid Polypody - Polypodium × shivasiae (Polypodium cambricum × interjectum) growing in #Cambridge #BotanicGarden. #FernFriday #Ferns #Botany Named for Mary Grant Walker née Shivas (who worked with Irene Manton FLS & first female president of @linneansociety.bsky.social)
A collage of three fern photos. In the middle a fern plant with many green fronds. On the left a close up of the upper surface of a frond showing simple pinnae. On the right a close up of the under surface of a frond showing brown oval sori.
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Found some good plants of Micheli's Ballonwort, Sphaerocarpos Michelii, on the Camel Trail near Padstow today. Lovely little things. Checked the sported under the microspe to confirm the ID. Also some Blue Crystalwort growing with it, Riccia crystalline. #bryopbyte #liverwort
Close up of Micheli's Ballonwort The Ballonwort and Crystalwort growing together View of the site, showing bike stands and firm gravelly groind with little vegetation.
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Helen Warlow @hippychick.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
House in Liège Belgium. How beautiful. Jealous
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Matt Stribley @mattstrib.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Some nice Crescent-cup liverwort, Lunularia cruciata, for today. Fertile male plants.
Showing plants of Crescent-cup Liverwort and Common Smoothcap MossDetail of male plant of the Crescent-cup Liverwort
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Helen Warlow @hippychick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
John Rogers Cox. Powerful painting That sky!
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Understand what's just happened here. Deregulation on steroids. The UK government has officially handed over its powers of governance to corporations. When will people truly understand what this means for their families, their communities and public services? www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
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Government lobbies lobbyists to deliver economic growth
Exclusive: Government is inviting lobbyists and their clients to play a major role in the deregulatory agenda
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