This week is devoted to the wacky plants in our house that Son1 is growing (because he’s a botany/ecology guy) and is dedicated to my friend Beth who asked (Beth has a wonderful grammar blog that I highly recommend everyone check out. Here’s a recent post: http://www.flubs2fixes.com/2016/02/19/whos-or-whose-a-grammar-owl-post/ )
Today’s featured plant is Shining Firmoss, Huperzia lucidula. They reproduce clonally by producing small, heart-shaped gemmae.
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Better not let him watch The Martian… There’s no telling how he’ll try and grow things!
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I’m sure he needs no further encouragement. 😀 This is not even counting all the Osage Orange, Coffeetree and other native tree seeds that he’d collected and strewn about our property…
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The botanists will save us all!
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Please show is the progress of the seeds! 😍
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I don’t know if you can tell from the photo, Sharon, but several are already sprouting and one has a root, too! 🙂
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Someone has to grow the food, right? 😀
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Woot! I’d love to see, too!
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very cool! can see the little sprouts! How long did it take?
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I’ll give another look 😄🌿
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Hehe…love that there’s wacky plants growing in your house. This is cool!! 😃👍🏻
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I’ll try to remember to post! These things grow so slowly, it may take months before you see much of a change. 🙂
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It took about 5 weeks for it to get to this point…it’s like watching paint dry! 😀
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Break out the magnifying glass! 😀
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It’s only because of Son1…LOL!
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If I lived closer to you, you guys would get all my dying plants to nurse back to health.Looks like a really neat plant!
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Lucky mom! (K)
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Lol
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I didn’t say we were able to keep them alive! 😉 We just start them…and then let them die. Hahaha!
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I do feel pretty lucky, Kerfe! 🙂
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Cute clones :-). Where will you plant them?
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I have no idea what Son1 plans to do with them. There was a big discussion of clubmoss at the Indiana Plants e-group and apparently, someone said that he’s never had luck getting them to grow past the germination stage, so it may be a moot point as to where they will be planted. :}
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The plant suspense in your house is kind of intense. I think I’m actually being mostly serious (and curious). What will happen to the gemmae??? I can even imagine the movie. In fast forward of course. I hope you’ll let us know :-).
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LOL! You’re too funny, Myriam! Are you on Twitter? I could take a pic of Son1 notes of someone else’s expt and tweet you. If not, I’ll try to remember to attach it to one of my blog posts next week. 🙂
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Not on Twitter, but would love to see the gemmae experiment notes :-). Sounds like your son is a natural scientist (in two senses of the word natural).
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Clever you! 😀 I’ll try to remember to get him to show me the notes again tomorrow. It’s bed time for me!
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Hope you had a pleasant sleep :-).
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