This Week’s In Defense of Plants is Mossome!

October 1, 2018 By John E. Riutta in Marginalia Tags: Botany, citizen, defense, inaturalist, medina, moss, physcohunt, plants, podcast, science

If you, like me, like moss, you’ll be pleased to learn that you can indulge your bryophilic inclinations to your heart’s content through the most recent episode – number 180 – of the In Defense of Plants podcast.

Featuring an interview with Dr. Rafael Medina of the Augustana College department of biology discussing his work and related PhyscoHunt citizen science project centered around goblet or bladder moss (Physcomitrium pyriforme), this new episode is certain to delight all interested in bryophytes and may even bring a few new souls over to “the green side.”

John E. Riutta

Founder and publisher of The Well-read Naturalist. Inveterate autodidact. Has repeatedly been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters.

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