Recently, my household and I discovered ourselves enveloped within the idyllic surroundings of the Peak District, having fun with a hike alongside the River Dove. It was all very peaceable and nice at first. We have been ingesting within the array of natural world surrounding us and listening to the sounds of nature.
Nonetheless, this was short-lived, as my little five-year-old sister stumbled throughout a really magnificent cavern. It was tall, imposing and slender, and better of all, luminous moss was rising throughout its echoing sides. The moss appeared to be magical – it glowed within the shadows.
All of us went wild with pleasure at this magnificent discovery, which I later discovered is known as “goblin’s gold” (botanically generally known as Schistostega pennata). Its luminous superpower works by reflecting mild out, in addition to absorbing it, which is uncommon as normally vegetation soak up all the sunshine they will get. I discovered much more – goblin’s gold has particular lens-like cells which deal with the wavelengths of sunshine that it must photosynthesise, and that’s why it displays the opposite wavelengths away, creating the legendary glow.
It is for that reason that I believe this plant ought to be dubbed “king of the cave vegetation”, as a result of it might probably develop at extraordinarily low mild exposures during which different vegetation can not thrive (or certainly survive). All hail to the phenomenon of nature – the mossy lightbulb!
Zahrah, 13
