I find it fascinating, but also a little unsettling, that I can moss leaves are one cell thick but I can still see them with the naked eye.
There's a whole world down there, that i never really thought about until a week ago.
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I've never seen a moss like this, but apparently it's a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiomnium_affine
I thought one of the characteristic features of moss was that it didn't have vascular stems.
Ah HA, you've fallen for the same trap i did. The veins in leaves are actually described as "vein-like" and are purely structural. Likewise, the stems are structural, mosses are non-vascular
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