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Milk moss, a pale whitish-green moss forming cushions on dead wood, bark and tree-fern trunks in damp forests. It is grown for naturalistic or terrarium displays and needs cool, humid, shaded conditions.
Leucobryum candidum, commonly known as milk moss, is a species of moss that occurs throughout Tasmania, Australia, and other parts of the world. It is the sole species representative of Leucobryum in Tasmania, despite the genus being widespread throughout other cool temperate regions.
Distributions of Leucobryum camdidum between hemispheres are mostly across the South Atlantic. This moss occurs all across the east coast of Australia; it can be found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. The species can also be found in Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. It is the most widespread species of Leucobryum in Australia, and can be found throughout the entire state of Tasmania.
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