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WimB

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I have no idea...
« on: July 26, 2009, 03:33:21 PM »
Anyone knows which plant this is? It just popped up this year in a shady corner outside.
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Re: I have no idea...
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2009, 03:37:54 PM »
Looks like one of those strange 'mosses' that can be found at florists and garden centres
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Re: I have no idea...
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2009, 04:16:55 PM »
It's a Selaginella.
(like a Lycopodium)

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Re: I have no idea...
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2009, 04:38:57 PM »
.....could be Selaginella kraussiana 'Aurea' (but that's a bit of a guess).

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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2009, 05:56:11 PM »
That's it, thanks Giles.

Weird, it's a native of the azores and the Canary Islands and I see it can be quite invasive (It's a problem in New-Zealand; probably not in Belgium though, we still have real winters over here  ;) ). Anyhow, I can't recall to have ever bought a plant like that... so I don't know how it got there
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Re: I have no idea...
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2009, 06:08:10 PM »
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Re: I have no idea...
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2009, 11:15:21 PM »
That's it, thanks Giles.

(It's a problem in New-Zealand;

Oh, is it?
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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2009, 07:05:49 AM »
Hi Lesley,

glad to have you back.  :-*
This is what I found:

http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/pests/selaginella
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« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2009, 09:34:57 AM »
We've got it in the UK, Wim, so I wouldn't be surprised if you've got it in Belgium too.
If you type in 'Selaginella' into the BSBI website it shows where it's been found:
http://www.bsbimaps.org.uk/atlas/main.php

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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2009, 11:42:20 AM »
Ah, yes indeed.

I had never seen it in Belgium before: global warming  ???  ;)
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« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2009, 10:12:44 PM »
Now I recognise it Wim and yes, I have seen it on the forest floor sometimes, also tucked into florists' posies ???
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