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  • Alexander@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Most of mosses in Finland do this real-time water bottle thing too (except for sphagnum and others that live in water most of time). Living on rocks in tundra is not much different from living in hot desert I guess, just longer days during growth period.