The “lace” of the plant kingdom is the low-growing selaginella, nicknamed spikemoss. They are moss-like, but are more complex with branching, horizontal stems and roots.
I only have one type of selaginella that is hardy enough to leave outside. It is the Gemmiferous form that turns “rusty” colored in the winter, thus the name ferous/iron.
These ancient plants are even more primitive than the ferns. Their leaves are scale-like and small.
They stay low to the ground due to their lack of supportive tissues.
My favorite type is this lovely blue, appropriately called Peacock Spikemoss.
I also have a form that is sold under the name”Frosty Fern.” This is not a fern, it is a variegated spikemoss.
These lowly but lovely plants reproduce by spores, not seeds.
They are great in terrariums. I put them in with carniverous plants to keep them company. They love to grow up the glass.
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Very beautiful, my friend! And your post is so fresh! Thanks so much! 😉
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Beautful
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Its very fun to read your posts and look at the pictures 🙂
How do you know so much about plants 🙂
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I am a former college biology teacher. You my young friend YOU are fascinating. I wish you and my daughter could be friends. You would make each other laugh.
I will tell her about you.
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Wow you were a Bio teacher!! 😀
We had a wonderful bio teacher in school and she’s just amazing, you reminded me a lot about her 🙂
Your blog is just so easy and fluent to go through, you can just take a class here and people would learn things before they would even realise 😉
And I too would love to be friends with your daughter, bring her here sometimes and we could chat up 😀
My mom too would be very happy to know about you 😀
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