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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

yesterday someone posted a closeup of moss on a street to show how fascinating it is. i can't find it anymore, but it was cool. maybe somebody still has that picture?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Go to Iceland and there are huge fields of lava rocks covered in a thick yellow-greenish moss because there isn't enough soil for anything else to grow. It is surreal and probably what most of the earth looked like for those 40 million years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes. Seconding and insisting you drive to this restaurant in the Westfjords. I hated seafood until I went here and it broke me. I now love seafood.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g189967-d1099110-Reviews-Tjoruhusid-Isafjordur_Westfjords_Region.html 5.0 at almost 900 reviews for a reason. It's in the middle of fucking nowhere, literally hours and hours to get here.

Also [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/13639211

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh I feel special, that was me!

That is also not a moss. It is actually a flowering plant in the euphorbia family. It is related to poinsettias, rubber trees, crotons and milk tree cactuses.

If you wanted to look at other cool plant photos I've taken I post on iNaturalist a lot. Here's one of some wild lettuce: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/239182317