Fissidens is well hard

[hotweldfire]

Have had a pile of hardscape materials sitting out in the garden in a jumbled pile for months. Some lava rock, dragon stone, mopani wood and some redmoor. Clearing them out 'cos I got someone in to sort out the mess that is the garden and look what I found:


Hard fissidens by hotweldfire, on Flickr

Fissidens fontanus growing on a stick of redmoor. Keep in mind this has been sitting on gravel and has recently been covered in snow. Occurs to me it might be worth trying to grow this in demand, painfully slow growing, moss emersed, no?

 

[John S]

Dont want to sell it do you?

 

[Radik]

Painfully slow indeed.

 

[hotweldfire]

Err, despite this being a miracle of nature I'm afraid I've chucked it.

 

[Antipofish]

Err, despite this being a miracle of nature I'm afraid I've chucked it.

People have had ten lashes for less than that !!!

 

[John S]

Err, despite this being a miracle of nature I'm afraid I've chucked it.

I meant the hard scape you had.

 

[hotweldfire]

Err, despite this being a miracle of nature I'm afraid I've chucked it.

People have had ten lashes for less than that !!!

Still got some redmoor twigs if you want

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[hotweldfire]

Ok, I was wrong. This stuff is not well hard. That doesn't do it justice. It's like the Begbie of the moss world.

Turns out I didn't throw it away, I actually put it in an opaque box then put that in a shed. So has been sitting in complete darkness for three weeks. Also, turns out there were two sticks. First pic crap, sorry. Phone camera appeared to be more interested in the garden fence:


Blurry fissidens by hotweldfire, on Flickr


Miracle fissidens by hotweldfire, on Flickr