Sfagnum grows in the northern hemisphere, where its many species is represented. In places it is already organized by its industrial mining. The plant represents tremendous value for the production of perfumes, medical drugs, as well as thermal insulation when building buildings. In addition, this sphagnum is widely used in flower growing, due to its good absorbency.

Safagnum Swamp: Description Moss and useful composition

SFAGNUM (or peat moss) refers to perennial herbatous plants, in fresh form Usually pale green. Forest and Siberian MKA types have more intensive staining. When drying, the sphagnum is bleached and becomes white, so sometimes so called.

Stem from sphagnum branching, hopped and thin up to 20 cm high. The branches themselves are clusters, small leaves, have cells, soft and seats, most importantly, not to be confused with the marsham. In contrast to other varieties of moss, the sfagnum practically does not have thin threads consisting of one kind of cells.

SFAGNUM very well absorbs minerals and water with their loose surface. A peat layer is formed from the root system. Very interesting, the plant looks under a microscope.

Mosses consist of:

• Fiber;
• Sahars and proteins;
• Triterpen connections;
• Pectin substances;
• Mineral compounds.

During the preparation, they collect and use the entire living part of the plant. Plant collection is carried out from May to September in sunny dry weather. Safagnum is collected by hand, pulling out of the reservoir, pre-pressing.

Dry moss with a thin layer in the sun in a well ventilated place.

The drying process is quite slow, after which its green parts are whites. The dried sphagnum is stored in polyethylene or paper bags. The shelf life of such raw materials up to 1 year.

Moss: Therapeutic properties of the marsh plant

Sfagnum has three important properties that have been used in medicine today. High hygroscopic plant and a special cellular structure allow you to apply moss as a dressing agent. He is able to absorb a large number of Mine, blood, plasma.

Unlike cotton wool, sphagnum has properties:

• Disinfecting;
• Antibacterial;
• Antifungal.

Such an effect is achieved due to the fact that there are substances such as sphagnum and humic acids. The bactericidal properties of moss can be applied with frostbite, cuts cuts.

When fractures, sphagnum will be a great tool as a tire when providing first aid.

There are many evidence that moss found its use by man as a dressing material in the 11th century. Today its properties are proved, which are much more efficient cotton wool.

Moss Safagnum: For what uses and methods of application

For the production of sphagnum-gauze tampons, moss is pre-sterilized, then impregnated with alcohol boric acid. This significantly enhances the antibacterial properties of the dressing material. For use at home purposes, moss is sterilized optional.

In history, many cases are described in the history that during the war, Sfagnum saved when there was no wool, nor iodine.

In the surrounding air there are a large number of pathogenic microorganisms, including pathogenic flora. If immunity is weakened or there are frequent allergies, then when contacting leather and mucous membranes may occur. various diseases. A sphagnum solution can be used as a struggle with such consequences.

Cooking:

• Select moss in the swamp;
• Squeeze well;
• Wash the patients with the resulting liquid and affected.

Such water can be used for preventing complications after cuts and abrasions.

In addition to the stamps, you can take a warm bathroom with a sphagnum. Moss cut into small parts, all this is poured very hot water, give it to be broken. All this is then poured into the bath. After such procedures, the sweating is significantly improved and blood circulation processes are improved.

Antifungal properties of sphagnum are used in micaose lesions of the skin, including stop.

So excellent means are counted insoles from Sfagnum. Prepare them very easy to put in casual shoes a little dry moss. Another advantage will be that the insole will be soft and very comfortable. In addition, dry sphagnum copes perfectly with increased sweating.

Use of moss man to care for plants

Safagnum helps to keep freshness to other plants if applied as a wrapper material. Such a moss can be added to various soils. It is wonderful suits some plants. As fertilizer, sphagnum is cut into small parts and plug it into the ground when planting plants. In addition, on a layer of soil in pots, such a layer is laid out for better filtering of rigid water. Periodically, such a "filter" must be changed.

Air humidity can be well improved if you put a sphagnum in the empty wall-mounted scene for flowers.

Moss will save your plants if there is a long departure. Pots with flowers are wrapped with moss from all sides, they are also decompressed by sphagnum and on the surface of the soil. In completion, everything is tightly covered with polyethylene.

For spring landing in open sad Used for such cultures:

• Pumpkin;
• Parenic.

For this, small "nests" are made from MCH. Thanks to such manipulations, the seeds have been comfortable and protected for a long time.

How does moss applied sphagnum (video)

Due to its unique properties, sphagnum is used in medicine, construction and fans of crop production. The plant is very unpretentious, it is possible to find it in the forests and on the swamps. Collecting and harvesting plants - simple. Describe your loved ones appearance Plants so that after the next forest walk, the sphagnum appeared at home.

What is so remarkable sphagnum? Its value in nature is huge. After all, it is a moss, creating a swamp. This is exactly what is not just living in the swamp, but creating them! From Sfagnum, stocks of such valuable natural wealth are also formed in a very significant degree like peat.

SFAGNUM (sphagnum, sphagnum, peat moss, white moss) is a long-term marsh moss that form so-called sphagnum swamps.
Its feature is that it is actually not root - its lower part gradually devies and turns into peat, and the upper continues to grow.

Properties of Sfagnuma

• Striking hygroscopicity
• Excellent air permeability
• Antibacterial properties
• Sphagnum does not contain nutrients, has an acidic reaction (pH about 3.0).
• According to reports, sphagnum itself is not subject to any disease.

Application Sfagnuma

• Laying of cutters
• Korneflodov transportation
• Floristics
• Medicine
• Washing-disinfectants
• Floriculture

It is not at all useless to know about the most useful properties of Moss Safagnum to everyone who happens in nature - mushrooms, tourists. Everything can happen. And not always to get medical care can be quickly. But it is possible to start treatment and right in the forest, if you know how it is done.

Moss Sfagnum will stop blood from the wound. Water, pressed from the bundle of sphagnum, will be useful will wash the burn. Or attach to the burned moss. Under the tire superimposed on a broken arm or foot, it is very nice to put the pillow of their sphagnum - this and pain will soften, and the edema to avoid will help.

To eliminate nasty smell From the shoes, it is enough as a hell to put there several sphagnum stems. By the way, it will help to cope with such a difficult curable disease, like a feet fungus!

Water arising from a sphagnous swamp can be completely daisyless. It is usually dark, because in the peat. But there are no pathogenic microorganisms in it - a biological filter from sphagnum moss has been trying!

And still moss sphagnum is used in the construction of wooden buildings. On him (like on Cukushkin Len) laid log logs. Due to the peculiarities of its structure, moss has low thermal conductivity and reliably isolates the interior of the street cold. The sphagnum moss also disinfects logs from pests (for example, from fungus).

Put moss as follows. A bunch of moss takes, breaks a bit and stacked on a log. Then he needs to press a little palm. The next portion of the moss is stacked so as to overlap the previous beam of centimeters for five. The moss layer thickness should be about one and a half centimeters.

How to Collect Moss

1. To collect moss it is better to choose not marsh terrain, most appropriate place MHA's collection is near the trees where Moss least water
2. Collect sphagnum in two ways:
   Fully removing it together with the roots (so it turns out more in volume, but it requires a long thorough cleaning);
   Slicing the upper surface part with a knife - it turns out less, longer, yes better.
3. Moss-Sfagnum can be collected and laying beams
4. The preparation of the sphagnum is made mainly manually. For the workpiece, places are selected in which moss the desired view Maximum free of vegetable impurities
5. The moss harvest is performed by selectively, "trenches" 20-30 cm wide with the same gaps between them, left intact. This allows MKU to gradually recover in the sections of the collection. Re-billet on such a plot is possible only after 7-10 years
6. For medicinal purposes, the entire living part of the sphagnum is used and harvested. The workpiece is carried out from May to September in dry sunny weather.

To collect sphagnum you will need:

• Rubber boots
• Plastic bags
• The plaster (the number of cuts can be large - I know about yourself! And mostly not from the knife, but from the source that often sprouts through the sphagnum).
• Gloves (they are not so comfortable in them, but they still protect hands)

Drying moss

Drying moss on the hanglands, the most suitable way of drying moss. Moss, waved on hung, is well blowing, keeping its elasticity. I hung, make stems, small trees.

A - Support racks

B - bias for the resistance of the rack

B - place for laying moss

I hung, placed under a canopy, closing moss from rain, fog and sun.

Safagnum alive preservation

To save the sphagnum alive, it must be stored in closed polyethylene packages in the cold or cold (refrigerator or freezer), we store on the street. When you need - defrost him, and he comes to life! All as in natural conditions! You can still raise moss: cut the green parts of the moss and put them in the pallet with a wet peat, not forgetting to constantly water. They say it looks beautiful! :)

Moss - to help gardener

And gardeners, and especially those who breed the plants homemade, often use this marsh moss. Lovers of rare orchids can not do without it.

And those who leave for a vacation can entrust the "watering" of colors Sfagnam - it is enough to wet the moss and lay them a plant in a pot. Soil will remain wet for a long time.

For the extension of the hostess seeds, this moss was used, and this experience was taken by gardeners. And for a good rooting of cuttings to the soil, you can wash the disturbed stems of the sphagnum.

That's just used in the garden and in the garden peat from a sphagnous swamp is not worth it! After all, because of the abundance of organic acids, such a peat is very sculpting the soil that most cultural plants unacceptably.

White moss sphagnum is quite popular with amateurs gardeners. This is due, first of all, with its feature to gain in itself, a sufficiently large amount of moisture and detain for a long time, without any harm for its fabric basis. The presence of natural antiseptic substances in the sphagnum tissues turns it into a good natural antiseptic, so it is not by chance for the transport of seedlings, shrubs and flower crops, for long distances of the roots of trees and shrubs wrapped with wet moss.

Many gardeners use sphagnum for storing dug up various garden crops. To do this, it is enough to dig up the tubers of plants, free them from the ground and small roots, dry and wrap the moist pieces of moss. To lay all the womb to the cardboard box and put in a dark cool place. This is enough, so that the tubers remain fresh and integer before the new planting.

Ceads use sphagnum as natural fighter of various fungal diseases, muced dew, to destroy slugs, insect pests and snails. To do this, it is enough to insist a few kilograms of sphagnum in ordinary water, strain the resulting composition and spray in the evening the affected bushes, flowers, or trees trunks, several times. Such processing will be enough for one season. To destroy the slugs, or snails enough to process the places of their accumulation of the same liquid.

IN last years It became very popular the use of sphagnum as a natural substrate for the manufacture of hanging baskets, kashpo, or wooden carved pots for flowers and various plants. As a drainage, sphagnum sliced \u200b\u200bslices are used, which only need to wet before use. Such improvised garden supplements, to landscape design in the form of various curly pots, with always fresh and blooming plants will become a good addition to any garden area.

Today we will talk about an unusual plantwhich is often used to grow orchids.

Moss Sfagnum will save your domestic pets from diseases of various kinds and many other problems in care. This unusual resident of the Swamp world has unique properties and scope, which will be the subject of today's article.

The name of His moss received from the Greeks, in the translation of Sfagnum means "Sponge". Its name it fully justifies: its hygroscopicity in a dry form (the ability to absorb water 20 times more of its own weight) more than cars 25 times.

In nature, it is easy to confuse with the "Cukushkina flas", which is very similar to it and differs only with its bright green color. Safagnum has a pleasant salad color, and when he dries out, it becomes almost white. That is why in the people he got a name white Moss.

He does not have the roots. The lower part over time dies and turns into peat, without overloading. Drops prevent substances that have bactericidal properties.

Thanks to these properties, Moss is used not only in gardening, but also in medicine (in particular, in the production of medical alcohol).

How to prepare moss sphagnum

It grows almost everywhere, but it is most reliable to look for him in marsh terrain. If you decide to stock this plant in the future, then follow these rules:

• Bottling sphagnum, do not pull it out with the bottom. You destroy a lush beautiful pillow.
• It will correctly cut off with scissors to the top of the plant, which will come in handy.Then the remaining roots will give young shoots.
• At home, it is necessary to ask hot water assembled moss, in order to die larvae and insect eggs. The properties of their sphagnum does not lose.
• You can dry outdoors - in the sun and the breeze.
• Artificial drying in dryers is not recommended, as the plant will dry there are not evenly.
• If the workpiece was for medical purposes, then the moss can be dried to complete drying, after which it is possible to break it and put in dry containers.
• For decorative purposes and flower growing, it is not recommended to dry it up. Store must be wrapped in a newspaper. Another storage method is freezer. Put it there green and removed as needed.

I suggest you see the workpiece of moss on video.

If you live in a big city or in your area there is no close swamps and you cannot independently make a blank, dried or green plant can be bought in a specialized flower shop or on the Internet (it is often sold on the orchid forums).

Useful properties of moss

Moss Sfagnum has three useful properties: high hygroscopicity, high bactericidal properties and breathability. These properties are used in various fields.

Use in medicine

Use in medicine This plant has become even in the 11th century. At the end of the 19th century, Sfagnum was sent by Russian provinces as dressing material. The package with such an amazing material was attached to the profile for paramedics and doctors with a polling about its properties. As a result, the doctors highly appreciated the bactericidity and hygroscopicity of the novelty.

IN modern medicine This dressing material was undeservedly forgotten, but during the war it was the first tool that with its high hygroscopicity with ease absorbed blood, pus and other liquids.

Now some pharmaceutical companies renew the production of sphagnum-gauze tampons, which are additionally soaked with a solution of boric acid.

Disinfectants, antibacterial and antifungal properties in MCH determines the phenol-like sphagnol and sphagnum or humic acids that exhibit antibiotic properties.

• Bactericidal properties are used when cutting, frostbite and burns.
• Do not everyone know that when the tire is applied on the fracture, it is impossible to impose it directly on the body. Use moss sphagnum. Properties will help to disinfect the wound and soften the friction and possible blows during the transportation of the patient.
• Use sphagnum insoles to combat feet fungus. They will also help get rid of the unpleasant smell of feet and their increased sweating.
• With psoriasis on the body and other infectious skin lesions, it is recommended to take baths with moss. To do this, a small amount of it must be cut, pour hot (70-80 ° C), insist and add the obtained infusion into the bathroom.
• Peat water that you sick after the collection of moss will help in the fight against staphylococcal lesions (it is necessary to carry out permanent wounds).
• It is recommended to use it to embroider children's mattresses, diapers. It also advises him as an excellent agent as a lining diaper for children, seriously ill and elderly people. They absorb moisture well and extraneous smells.

Building

In the construction of moss, sphagnum and its properties are also actively used as an environmentally friendly insulation. When building cutters, it is laid between the logs. Bactericidal properties will not allow logs to rot. And when building a bath, it will still regulate and moisture drops.

Gardening

Thanks to the bactericidal properties of the sphagnum, there is a flowerfish for growing young plants or to save the fallen instances. Gigroscopicity allows you to hold moisture in the substrate. Also, the sfagnum is also used as a component for the preparation of different substrates (for sensipoly, gloxy), and it is particularly widely used.

Use moss for growing young orchid children:

Sphagnum scream with hot water, cool and squeeze. Ready liquid mineral fertilizer "Kemira Lux" shed him. If the fertilizer in dry packaging use a 20-gram package with a concentration of 0.5 g / l. After the strait, again, it is sprinkled slightly and withstand in the closed p / fl pack of 4 days.

For growing roots with a length of 5-7 cm Orchid, it is necessary to transplant every 2 months in the freshly prepared, so sphagnum. When the roots achieved the desired size, transplant the plant into the substrate from the pine crust.

In the country, it is possible to use this plant as fertilizer or covers from frost. From it are made and, famous for all gordowers, peat cups for seedlings.

Beekeeping and animal husbandry

Safagnum moss is used in hygienic purposes in cells with pets: rats, hamsters, guinea pigs. This natural filler of the toilet will perfectly cope with outsiders and absorb moisture.

As a natural insulation, it uses beekeepers. Lailed under the hive, he will remove the excess moisture from the hive and disinfect air, which will relieve the bee family from unwanted diseases.

Think you have discovered for yourself amazing properties White moss. Therefore, when you will be in the forest and meet it on our way, be sure to prepare it at least a little bit.

Not every person knows that the nature of our country is rich in vegetable materials, which have a large number of useful properties and are widely used in various fields of human activity. Safagnum is one of the unique plants of ecology, which has found its use in medicine, crop, animal husbandry, etc. Thanks to the useful properties of MCH, our ancestors fought with diseases, and today the sphagnum perennial is actively used to treat a number of diseases.

What is sphagnum

A variety of many years of disputes from the SPHAGNACEAE family refers to the class of deciduous moss. The sphagnum mosses are grown with a dense, soft carpet, mainly on the ferris, in forest areas and northern hemisphere swamps. The south is mostly growing in the mountains. Distinctive feature Safagna - the lack of the root system.

Appearance of sphagnum resembles fluffy grass. Grows the moss to the upper part, and the lower, dying, forms peat. On the stem and side branches of the plant are small leaves, they grow a spiral. SFAG has a variety of coloring, in nature, more often meet brown, red, white and pink moss.

Plant structure

Safagnum is a large plant, on average can reach a height of 10-20 cm. On the top of the branches are formed boxes, in which disputes are formed later. Safagna - the only moss, who does not have rhizoids, so they absorb moisture stem and leaves. The stem includes three types of branches: sticking, hanging and top. The plant leaf consists of two cells: green (alive) and the dead. The first are responsible for photosynthesis, and the second serve as a storage with moisture and air.

Inside the body consists of vegetable tissues with cells, the structure is formed by connecting green cells with each other. Due to its structure, this type of sphagnum moss has the ability to absorb a large amount of water. When saturated with a peat peat, the perennial acquires a light green shade, and with full drying whites.

Properties of Sfagnuma

Safagna plants grow on places with high humidity And contribute to the root of the territory. In the body of the plant contains carbolic acid, so SFAG helps the formation of peat and almost does not rot. Gigroscopicity allows MSHA to absorb a large amount of moisture, so it plays the role of the soil breakdown, and thanks to the sphagnol prevents root rotting, therefore it is used in horticulture. With the help of plants of this group, sphagnum swamps are formed.

Varieties

Distinguish next species moss:

• dry;
• swamp;
• white.

As sphagnum breeds

Disputes ripen in spores and siblings contribute to the reproduction. Fertilization occurs only with the participation of water, the zygote is formed and divided. Gautory develops from the lower cell, which consumes nutrients from Gametophyt and promotes the development of sporophyte. Next, on the top of the stem, a box is formed and disputes are formed, ripening disputes fall on the ground and contribute to the development of a new plant.

Application Sfagnuma

For many years beneficial features Sfagnum facilitated people life and saved lives. Actively apply sphagnum perennial moss of steel during hostilities, since a shortage of dressing materials was observed. North America residents to date apply dry plant instead of lining in children's cradle, because Thanks to its qualities, it helps to avoid diaper areas.

In medicinal purposes

SFAGNUM is used in medicine and known to bactericidal and aseptic properties, it is used for disinfection and other purposes:

1. He confronts the infection of wounds and cuts.
2. Due to the content of phenolic substances, Kumarin, sugar and resin compounds, the sphagnum moss is an antiseptic.
3. Using the plant with a fracture as a dressing material or a dressing, you can not resort to additional sterilization.
4. Moss struggles with bacteria, fungus of skin and nails, is useful in psoriasis and skin irritation, fighting the suppuration of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
5. Perennial sphagnum can be used as raw materials for the manufacture of medical and other types of alcohol, feed yeast. In addition, the moss is useful for burning and frostbite. To do this, chop dry moss should be chopped and pour boiling water to the state of the Cashitz, then a slightly cooled moss applied to the patient.
6. To combat breakdowns in lying patients use sphagnum bedding: they absorb sweat, eliminate unpleasant odors.
7. This species perennial Plant Even use as additional tires during the bone fracture.
8. It is known that the chewing of a sphagnum moss dulls labor pains and speeds up the process of birth.
9. With high sweating of the legs, insoles from the sfag are used, for this it is necessary to grind it and fill it with a linen bag, repeating the foot contour.

1. Broth from Sfagnum has long been applied in chinese medicine With sore throat, flu, as a disinfectant in stomatitis and infections in the nasophal. The decoction is actively treated insect biters and ulcers.
2. Based on extract of a long-term plant, medications have been created for the treatment of prostate and inflammation in bladder bubble.
3. SFAG can be used as cotton or bandage, it absorbs much more moisture than cotton.
4. When colitis use chopped sphagnum: it is eaten on a teaspoon for half an hour before meals.
5. Considering the dermatological properties, the perennial is used with skin diseases - make a special compress.
6. To combat staphylococcal, a sphagnum perennial is collected in marsh places, peat water is pressed, then it is washed with infected places or apply wet sphagnum to an infected site.

Several recipes that help with a variety of diseases:

• Powder contributing to the healing of open wounds and ulcers. The dried slices of sphagnum must be carefully confused, then sprinkle cut and wait a few minutes. After that, it is necessary to rinse the wound and impose a bandage.
• Infusion against the nail fungus one hundred grams of dry plants pour a glass of medical alcohol, to insist four minutes, then merge alcohol, and make a moss to an infected nail and leave for several hours.
• Decoction for the treatment of diseases of the joints. One hundred grams of sphagnum must be pouring ten liters of water, bring to a boil and let it brew a few minutes. After complete cooling of the ragger, you must fill the bath warm water And add it there. Take the healing bath follows from half an hour to forty minutes.

Use in the farm

Our nature is rich in resources that play a large role in everyday life, and their useful properties are often known not to everyone. In economic purposes, the use of sphagnum has gained widespread. Hundreds of gardeners and builders, flower and herbers use moss as an assistant in everyday life.

SFAGNNA Perennial often plays a role decorative plantIt is used in the design of flower beds or garden. This perennial often use flowerflowers: orchid lovers and indoor plants insulate them root system. For a peat moss's garden, it serves as a fertilizer, it is suitable for aeration and improve the quality of the soil, for storing roots and onions, seeding seeds.

Before adding a sphagnum to the ground, it is necessary to cut it finely. Due to the waterproofing effect of moss, sphagnum for indoor plants in rooms with low humidity are used as an additional source of moisture and nutrients, if there is no possibility to care for flowers daily.

The beekeepers are used sphagnum as a heater for the hives, to collect extra moisture during the winter cooling period, and animal livestocks - as a litter for livestock or pets, because It has the property to absorb unpleasant odors, and the material used is used as fertilizer for weakened soil.

The plant is suitable for climbing the slits or insulation of walls in the houses from a bar or baths: for this, wet moss is laid between the bars. Thanks to the antiseptic properties, sphagnum prevents pests that can damage the woody layer, mold, and also provides ventilation. In addition, the plant has a natural smell, in contrast to others thermal insulation materialsand not inferior to them in quality.

The plant is widely used as decorative materialIt can be applied to create flurariums, decorative floral compositions and panels. It will not only revive the appearance, but also will prolong its neighboring plants. It can be used as an organic substrate, instead of a floristic sponge.

Plant blank

Sphagnum sprouts should be collected on places with minimal humidity, for example, near the trees, avoiding the swamps. When collecting the top is cut with a knife. The collection must be performed selectively to give MCU to recover at the assembled area. The harvesting of moss for medicinal purposes is made from May to September in dry weather. For drying material make a simple wooden design - hangers, externally resembling an open rack. Install them in a dry place protected from rain and sun.

After the collection is manufactured, the perennial is poured with warm water for 35 minutes to get rid of insects, then press, dried. Store prepared natural material It follows in a dark place in a paper or tissue bag. In winter, the sphagnum can be stored on the balcony, but it must be understood. If desired, sphagnum sprouts can be multiplied at home. It is necessary to choose a comfortable plastic container, to provide it with a ventilating hole, add water and put the moss with the bottom of the water.

Contraindications for use

The only reason for which should not be resorted to the treatment of sphagnum is an allergic reaction to its chemical components.

Video

Moch-like - this is one of the departments of dispute plants, which occupies a special position in the system of this kingdom. Representatives have economic, drug importance, are widely used and are important participants in the power circuit. In addition, participate in the formation of marsh ecosystems.

Safagnum: systematic position

In its place in the system of organic peace, sphagnum occupy the following taxonomy position:

• Kingdom: Plants.
• Department: Moch-shaped;
• Class, order and family - sphagnum.
• Rod: Safagnum.

The number of species reaches 120, of which they received the greatest distribution such as:

• sFAGNUM BOLD;
• hopped;
• brown;
• magellansky;
• papillosic;
• Girgenzone.

The structure of Sfagnum has some features that put the imprint and its use by man. Consider this question more.

External structure of the plant

A green loose rug made of bored on the top of the stalks, which forms the bodies of swamps and dries and swims on the surface of the overgrown Lakes saw, probably, each. So this is sphagnum. Photos of this plant can be viewed below.

Very pretty juicy stalks, repeatedly dissected and crowded up. Outside covered with a crust, which is several cell layers. Safagnum leaves Sitting, bunch type. Those are located on the stem, the oblong shape and more often single. And the leaves of the twigs, on the contrary, more crowded, on the top bent. In fact, they are practically scaly and weakly noticeable without special equipment. What is usually taken for the leaves is numerous branches from the main stem.

Like other MShs, Sfagnum has no roots. However, in contrast to relatives, they do not have rhizoids to attach to the substrate. Interestingly, the lower the skeleton, the more light it seems. Finally, the base completely loses the green color. This is due to the lack of a chlorophyll pigment in cells, since these structures are no longer alive, but dead.

From such parts deposited on the bottom of the swamp, peat is formed later. That is why sphagnum is often in general, the color of the plant is gentle green, not bright. This is due to the fact that it is constantly posing with plenty of water. The question arises: "How moss is worried so much liquid in itself to store?" This is explained by the features inner structure. Consider them.

The inner structure of Sfagnuma

From the inside the moss is formed by ordinary cells consistent. The sphagnum leaves contain chlorophyll, as, however, and stem structures. Therefore, photosynthesis is carried out by almost the entire body surface. The food is also happening, that is, the absorption of water.

Green moss cells are connected to each other and form a structure resembling a network - this is the conductive plant system. The reproduction authorities are spouts in which disputes ripen.

Conductive system, similar. Instead, there are special cells. Painting and water absorption functions are they them.

Special cells in the structure

Safagnum cells are not all the same. The fact is that some of them has a shell with a hole and a dead protoplastic, that is, an empty cavity. It is necessary to absorb a large amount of moisture and keep it inside itself in these hollow structures.

The structure of the sphagnum allows it to be filled with water in an amount, 20-30 times larger than its own weight. That is why in the habitats of these Mukhov is always very wet, they are literally floating on the surface of the water.

When the plant is filled with moisture, then its color is gentle green. During the drought it gradually whites, as a result, becoming completely snow-white.

Reproduction of moss

The structure of the sphagnum includes the specialized necessary for the reproduction of the structure - sporangia. They are the same as all other moss, are located on special stalks in the top of the plant. Present a box with a cover in which the formation and ripening dispute occurs.

When the time of reproduction occurs, small cells are poured and spread with wind. Finding into a drop of water, begin to germinate in a new plant. The sporal cover opens spontaneously.

There is another way of reproduction that this plant exercises. SFAGNUM is able to give vegetative parts for further independent existence. Most often, this happens after the main skeleton grows greatly in length, towering over the other parts. At this moment, a subsidiary is separated.

Special properties of sphagnum moss

White photos can be seen in this article, has a number of special properties caused by the presence of special cells. It:

1. Gigroscopicity, superior to all known limits in plants. If you compare the ability to absorb wool moisture and sphagnum, then the moss will be more than 6 times! In addition, it is noteworthy that the distribution of water inside the body of the plant occurs absolutely evenly. Therefore, all the existing cells will not be filled, the moss will not give out an extra moisture. This allows you to use it as an addition to the soil.
2. Air permeability, which allows soil with moss to be very easy, loose and air. Such an increased aeration has a positive effect on the growth and development of other ecosystem plants.
3. Fagnic acids included in the plant allow it to moderately acidify the soil with hydrogen cations.
4. A rich material organic composition makes a special plant. Sfagnum has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, as well as disinfectants.

What is the composition of these amazing Mids? You can call the most important connections:

• sphagnic acids;
• kumarina;
• sfagnol;
• terren;
• carbolic acid.

Due to this component composition, the plant itself is practically not subject to diseases or impact on the pest.

Places of Growing

The main condition for the growing plant is the presence of sufficient moisture. After all, the moss is sphagnum, the photo of which is in the review, very dependent on the water during reproduction, like all the disputes. That is why it can be attributed to the main places of growth:

• moderate zone of the northern hemisphere;
• european part of Russia;
• Siberia;
• South America.

The main ecosystem, which this moss forms, is rollers. Everywhere where such a plant is set, there is a gradual and inevitable rooting of the terrain.

Role in nature

All the life of the sphagnum is built on his ability to absorb moisture. Features of internal I. external structure, economic significance and the applications, use for medical purposes - almost everything is explained by the composition and structure. The same is obliged and practiced in nature.

The main thing is that sphagnum, whose photo we have placed in the article, forms the peat deposits. Due to the composition of the sphagnic acid and sphagnole plant, the processes of rotting and decomposition of the deadly lower parts of the plant occurs extremely slow. This leads to the formation of peat layers. Action occurs slowly, about one meter per thousand years.

It is also important to cause the location of the terrain. As a result, not only vegetation cover changes, but in general, the whole biogeocenosis, animal peace, insects and other creatures.

Economic importance for man

You can call several basic areas of application of this moss man.

Thus, it turns out that peat moss is sphagnum - not only an interesting and valuable plant as a source of mineral, but also invaluable storehouse medicines, the source of moisture and aerator for other representatives of the flora. Its beautiful appearance is harmoniously combined with the spectacular characteristics of the inner structure and the significance in the nature and life of people.