I am hoping to find a moss that my friend saw long ago. It is like hairy cap moss, but the hairs are angled downward rather than up.\n\nWe would very much appreciate it if someone could tell us the name of such a moss. If you have links to a supply source, they would be greatly welcomed as well.\n\nthanks.
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The name of the moss which is the Bryophyte, is Polytrichum.Which is a gametophyte.It occurs in the moist coniferous forests; widespread across Northwestern Ontario and boreal forests; cosmopolitan.It is a dark green, robust, unbranched, 4 - 15 cm tall or more; single-sexed, males have enlarged heads at plant tips, females produce sporophytes; lower portion covered by grey rhizoids. Leaves - 6 - 10 mm long, lance-shaped, sharply pointed; spread at right angles when moist, erect-flattened and rolled when dry; membranous, sheathing base; edges coarsely toothed; midrib covered on inner surface with 20 - 55 vertical tiers of cells (lamellae) 4 - 9 cells high, each tier ends with U-shaped cell.The sporophytes - common, at plant tips; stalk wiry, very long; capsules horizontal, 4- sided, 64 short, rounded teeth and expanded central membrane around capsule mouth; capsule hood has tuft of hair at tip, covers entire capsule.\n\n The hair-caps are the largest unbranched mosses in western Canada. Common hair-cap could be mistaken for alpine hair-cap (Pogonatum alpinum, also called Polytrichastrum alpinum), but that moss has round (not square) capsules. Tea made from common hair-cap was once taken to dissolve kidney and gall bladder stones. Based on the Doctrine of Signatures, this moss should be good for the hair, so a strong tea of common hair-cap was used as a rinse to 'strengthen and beautify' ladies' tresses. *The stems of common hair-cap often reach 30 - 45 cm or more in length. when the leaves are removed, the central stems form tough, pliable strands that have been used to make brooms and brushes or have been woven or plaited to make mats, rugs, baskets, and hassocks. Apparently this was quite an art in ancient Europe. A hair-cap moss basket from the remains of an early Roman fort at Newstead, England, dates from 86 AD.
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Are you sure it wasn't an insect of some type, like a stick insect or even a dragon fly? They can grow quite large sometimes. Either that or some bast@rd was playing a sick joke on you.....!\n\nsee the site below - there are some HUGE stick insects on there!!
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There are Ceiba trees at the ruins ... they have pods with many seeds surrounded by a dense mat of cottony fibers. Does this fit? Or it could be a legume (bean-like seed?) of some sort or a member of Bignoniaceae (flat winged seed?). If it is 9 months old it hasn't faced a full Canadian winter yet, I hope you are going to protect it!
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http://www.olympusconfocal.com/gallery/plants/index.html\n\nIf this doesn't work try Google images.
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I can't find anything, but I don't know what I'm looking for other than a black and yellow spider.  Here's a source which has some good pictures for which you can possible identify.  Check the garden spiders, orb weavers, and banana spiders.\n\nhttp://www.spiderzrule.com
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This is normal IMHO, and it sounds like you are doing a fine job. They also supposidly like having a regular dust and the old leaves being removed from the pot if applicable. I've looked after mine for over 7 years now; I still get the joy, heheh.\n\nTo start with, I found the plant grew very predictabilty upwards, loosing leaves slowly at the bottom for several years. Then after lobbing the top off a few times over the years (think carefully, and take a deep breath for this) buds for new 'runners' seemed to spring up even lower down, and it has become more tree-like; branching at the top.\n\n The 'leaning' towards the sun will likely be the trickey thing to manage!!\n\nGL :)
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I live near Effingham and judge when the mushrooms are out by the number of cars parked next to the road in the timber on my way home from work.  Thus far I have seen none.  I will update you if the situation changes
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If it's really small, it may be a pseudoscorpion.\n\nHere's a pic: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ar_1.jpg
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Check gander Mountain.  i think I bought afew there last summer.  They are great jigs and the fish just love them!  I have to go to the Gander Mountain here and I'll check for them.  If u can't find any send me an e-mail and I might be able to send some to you.
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My link of the day on my blog. All about plants and herbs. \n\nhttp://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/med-aro/
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When I was 9 I use to play in the woods/swamp behind my house. A typical 9 year old,  Me and my friends would make trails and "tree-forts" through the woods. \n\nOne day we came across a very strange scene. An area of low-growing palms had been cleared in a circle about 20FT in diameter. In the middle, was a ouija-board. There were also a couple of empty Jack Daniels bottles. \n\nThis place just had a "creepy" feeling about it. Me and My friends buried the "board", and waited for the 20ft circle to "grow-back".  It never did! It took YEARS for that circle to grow back! \n\nIn North Florida ,vegetation grows back quick! Very strange!\n\nThats the only run-in with a Ouija-board I ever had.
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I USED to go to the RIVER and I noticed that during the WINTER, when the Hydo-electric Establishment let the river down, so's people could fix-up their piers, the bushe's that used to be under the river water would start growing.  Interesting, cause all most of SPRING and SUMMER, they were under the water!!!!  Just something to think about, can't explain how they stayed alive, take a Botanist I guess!!!! Hope this helps........
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I love fairy's.  My grandmother always believed in fairy's.  I frequent an area of woods that is absolutely magical.  Mosses and wildflowers, native trout, orange salamanders, mushrooms and waterfalls.  A PERFECT place for fairy's!!!
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Cool idea..\n\nHaircut...\n\nWhat does one reap, but never sow?\nWhat needs water nor soil to grow?\nTangled bushed or weeping willowed,\nthick as oak, cloudy billowed.\nLong dead before the Reaper's will,\nharvested before the bill.
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well ... THAT'S interesting ... i really don't know much about mushrooms though ... mushrooms don't grow in India , not a suitable climate .\n\nwell , actually i DID notice that . (^_^)\n\nDid you REALLY trouble yourself to find a mushroom with MY name in it ? and found pictures of it too ? (*_*)
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Tough it is a bit late, its not unheard of, as long as they don't freeze  they can survive just with a somewhat slow metalbolism, its been a rather warm Nov in the north east which may account for this, once the temp really plummets they will stop appearing. If its the ones shaped like a T its probably a plume moth, if not its probably some type of noctuid.
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go to yahoo search, type in sarsaparilla, click images (above the search bar), click search.\nSee if any of the pics look like the plant you are describing.\nIt almost sounds like a ginko biloba tree to me.