#LiverwortHunt on Twitter
Thank you everyone who has been sharing their Liverwort Hunt adventures on Twitter. And of course for the fantastic samples we have been receiving. Here are some images from across Britain from fellow Liverwort Hunters.
Check-out Tweets from your fellow Liverwort Hunters and at #LiverwortHunt
- https://twitter.com/PhoebeSleath/status/1377916750763855872
- https://twitter.com/AndrewPlatt4/status/1379768800892047364
- https://twitter.com/JennieShowers/status/1377637610135379971
- https://twitter.com/PlantTeaching/status/1378983860004868098
- https://twitter.com/DrEveEve/status/1376992459624964101
- https://twitter.com/DrEveEve/status/1376992966867353603
- https://twitter.com/JennieShowers/status/1375478193390518273
- https://twitter.com/RiaLMitchell/status/1377312709520326658
- https://twitter.com/RichardPOliver/status/1375887187447795712
Participants in The Great British Liverwort Hunt are searching for two species of common liverworts. But what exactly is a liverwort?
In the video below, Alex Summers from the Cambridge University Botanic Garden discusses liverwort lineages, some of the challenges of growing plants for a research collection and diversity in UK bryophytes.
Browse through the below images of liverworts that have been recently taken by our volunteer testers. They are quite small in size and so it takes a while to develop an eye for spotting them.
See more images on the British Bryological Society's new website or on Inaturalist - crescent-cup liverwort (Lunularia cruciata) and common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha).
Marchantia polymorpha at base of brick wall
Marchantia polymorpha and moss growing in brick holes
Marchantia polymorpha close-up showing gemma cups
Lunularia cruciata growing in the top of a plant pot
Marchantia polymorpha growing in plant pots
Marchantia polymorpha on footpath
Possibly a Snakeskin Liverwort (Conocephalum conicum) - not a species that we are collecting.