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Bogwood
No two pieces look alike Bogwood is a natural product therefore each piece is individual. It is available in all shapes and sizes. Ideal as aquarium and garden ornaments. Many plants can be fixed to actually grow on bogwood, java fern in particular.
Bogwood is something I would recommend to all fish keepers as it has many benefits if added into a coldwater or tropical set-up. It's fine in the aquarium, providing it is thoroughly washed and prepared before putting it into the tank - there should be no toxins. Bogwood lasts a long time and makes an ideal shelter for many aquatic creatures including freshwater shrimps, kuhli loaches and coldwater plecs. About Bogwood Buried trees and forests are common and widespread in Irish bogs. In extensive areas of the west of Ireland entire forests of pine lie preserved underneath the blanket bog. In raised bogs pine forest is part of the natural vegetation succession from lake to bog. The three important types of wood found preserved in bogs today are Scot's pine, oak and yew. They can be from 4,000 to 7,000 years old. Pine, often referred to as deal or fir, is found deep in the bog, and occurred in times when the drying of surface peat allowed a migration of pines on to the bogs.
These Scot's Pine woodlands
were open in character and had an understorey of birch. In the ground
layer Ericaceous shrubs or heather species were important including Ling
heather and Crowberry. They were maintained on the bog for up to 500
years. Eventually the bog surface became unsuited to tree growth and
regeneration of the woodland. As the climate became increasingly wetter
and bog growth became active again the trees were drowned and seeds could
not germinate.
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