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Dino in action |
January 05, 2014. Since I'm the gardener type in the family, the novelty green gifts come my direction at our Christmas gift exchange. Last year Amy gave me a create your own crop circle kit (which I admit I haven't actually started). This year, it was a dinosaur plant, which came as a shriveled ball of dried-up mossy material, with promises of a spectacular rejuvenation when watered. And sure enough, dino did not disappoint. I neglected to take a picture in the fully dehydrated state, but the photo at left was taken just seconds after wetting the plant in some lukewarm water. The photo at right is after a few hours, when green color and a semblance of lushness have returned. Nice!
The informational materials and the accompanying website were good enough to describe the paleo-history of my plant, but didn't tell me what the plant actually was. Luckily, modern search engines leave no stone unturned, let alone a novelty item like this – so I quickly found out that I likely have an individual of species Selaginella lepidophylla, which is in the spikemoss family. It supposedly likes to dry out completely every now and then, which is fine by me – that's what happens to many of our houseplants anyway :-) |
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