There are around 2,500 kinds of the moss! It can grow without soil!
Moss is one of the first plants that got out of the sea to the land 400million years ago.
It is a mother of plants that has kept bringing up whole lives on the Earth up to today.
There are about 2,500 kinds in Japan, and among them, especially Sunagoke (Giboushigoke department) and Haigoke (Haigoke department) spread and form green as pioneers in defiance of dryness, strong wind and humidity.
Without having roots, it absorbs necessary water and nourishment from the air around it, and does not need the soil for growth.
It is a mother of plants that has kept bringing up whole lives on the Earth up to today.
There are about 2,500 kinds in Japan, and among them, especially Sunagoke (Giboushigoke department) and Haigoke (Haigoke department) spread and form green as pioneers in defiance of dryness, strong wind and humidity.
Without having roots, it absorbs necessary water and nourishment from the air around it, and does not need the soil for growth.
Sandmoss
Various eco-system is formed!
This is because moss reacts to a minute environmental condition in its growth environment.Even among the same kind each moss grows in various color.
Not to be influenced by season, weather, light and shade, the character of the basis or other creatures in its color or formation, it forms various eco-system adjusting itself to the environmental changes.
Not to be influenced by season, weather, light and shade, the character of the basis or other creatures in its color or formation, it forms various eco-system adjusting itself to the environmental changes.
The moss takes in CO2 and fixes carbon inside!
The moss has a function of immobilizing carbon in its body by carbon dioxide assimilation like other plants. General plants corrode the immobilized carbon in soil by dying and exhaust CO2 to an atmosphere by incineration in the cities.
As a result, it is said that balance of absorption and the discharge of the CO2 is roughly equal.
However, the moss accumulates with having immobilized carbon and forms peat moss (the peat layer) because the corrosion of moss that can grow on inorganic corrodes goes extremely slowly. Looking in the long run, the moss may be said that an immobilizing degree of the carbon is remarkably high in comparison with other plants.
As a result, it is said that balance of absorption and the discharge of the CO2 is roughly equal.
However, the moss accumulates with having immobilized carbon and forms peat moss (the peat layer) because the corrosion of moss that can grow on inorganic corrodes goes extremely slowly. Looking in the long run, the moss may be said that an immobilizing degree of the carbon is remarkably high in comparison with other plants.
Peatmoss
It is effective for improvement of the eco-system as well!
It is known that the moss grows in a mass and as it grows thicker, it maintains a large quantity of water temporarily.
Although it has a small scale of water retentivity comparing with volume of other trees and soils, it works to suppress wasting water and to supply water for trees and the soil stably.Even though the surface is dry, its speed of absorbing water is fast and it makes water infiltrated to the ground slowly.
For a long time, it is confirmed that the moss suppresses the outflow of the earth and sand by a function of the quick water absorption. Because the moss absorbs water quickly and gets together with the seed plant, that has an effect on ecosystem to reborn wealthily. As a result, it can controls of being washed away of sands in the long run. In addition, when moss (the creature layer) is coated on a concrete slope, a synonym for inorganic quality, it becomes a passage of creatures, and it is known to restraint relaxation of the interchange between the eco-system.
In these ways, it is certain that moss is a plant with a various characteristics other ordinary plants don't have.
Although it has a small scale of water retentivity comparing with volume of other trees and soils, it works to suppress wasting water and to supply water for trees and the soil stably.Even though the surface is dry, its speed of absorbing water is fast and it makes water infiltrated to the ground slowly.
For a long time, it is confirmed that the moss suppresses the outflow of the earth and sand by a function of the quick water absorption. Because the moss absorbs water quickly and gets together with the seed plant, that has an effect on ecosystem to reborn wealthily. As a result, it can controls of being washed away of sands in the long run. In addition, when moss (the creature layer) is coated on a concrete slope, a synonym for inorganic quality, it becomes a passage of creatures, and it is known to restraint relaxation of the interchange between the eco-system.
In these ways, it is certain that moss is a plant with a various characteristics other ordinary plants don't have.
Ashmoss