All About Green Moss
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All About Green Moss

B1IntermediateSeptember 14, 202614 min

Walk through the woods and you’ll see it. Walk down the sidewalk and you’ll see it in the cracks. And occasionally you will see it growing on the roofs of people’s homes. OK Let’s Learn all about green moss! Reach out for questions, feedback and future episode suggestions: [email protected] Go to our new website- okletslearn.com Support the podcast and be named a producer/ inaugural supporter of the show here at this Patreon link: www.patreon.com/okletslearn OK Let’s Le...

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Welcome to the OK Let's Learn podcast. This is a family-friendly podcast where we dive into everything and anything. Science, history, books, stories, and tons of different topics. My name is Kevin O'Keeffe. So today, OK, let's learn all about Moss. Oh my goodness! Randy Moss? That wide receiver on the Vikings? No! Yes, that green moss. Yeah, that carpet that's all through our woods. It's on our roof if we're not taking care of our house.

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Yeah, and you know what? It's so fascinating because there's so many different living creatures and plants all through our woods, whether it's moss that we're going to talk about today, or mushrooms, fungi, mold, and even that lichen. Yeah, those cornflake looking white pieces that are flaky on our trees and our bark and they're growing everywhere. But no, this is an episode on

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moss. So okay, let's learn. Yeah, people call it green moss because most of the moss out there is green, but it comes in all different colors, believe it or not. And there's thousands of species of moss, but many of them are green because they contain chlorophyll, which which is the material that allows plants to use sunlight to make food.

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