Fog | |
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Clumps o fog on the grun an base o trees in the Allegheny Naitional Forest, Pennsylvanie, Unitit States | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kinrick: | Plantae |
Clade: | Embryophytes |
Diveesion: | Bryophyta Schimp. sensu stricto |
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Synonyms | |
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Fog, kent forbye as moss, is sindry wee, saft plaunts that's 1–10 cm (0.4–4 in) lang for ordinar, tho some species is mair muckle. Thay growe for ordinar near thegither in wee busses or basses in dunk, urie or shady airts. Thay dinnae hae flouers or seeds, an thair aefauld leafs kivers the shilpie stalks. At certain times fog brings furth spore cods thit micht kythe as beak-like cods hoven alaft on shilpie stalks.
Fogs is aften mistaen for crottle, a kynd o fungus thit bides simbiotically wi algae or cyanobacteria, acause thair appearance is similar.
Fog isnae weel kent in the fossil record acause thir cell waas is sae saft. Definite fossils o earlie fogs is kent frae the Permian period, wi som fossils thocht tae be fogs frae the Carboniferous[3].