Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: WimB on July 26, 2009, 03:33:21 PM
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Anyone knows which plant this is? It just popped up this year in a shady corner outside.
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Looks like one of those strange 'mosses' that can be found at florists and garden centres
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It's a Selaginella.
(like a Lycopodium)
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.....could be Selaginella kraussiana 'Aurea' (but that's a bit of a guess).
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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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8)
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That's it, thanks Giles.
(It's a problem in New-Zealand;
Oh, is it?
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Hi Lesley,
glad to have you back. :-*
This is what I found:
http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/pests/selaginella
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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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Ah, yes indeed.
I had never seen it in Belgium before: global warming ??? ;)
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Now I recognise it Wim and yes, I have seen it on the forest floor sometimes, also tucked into florists' posies ???