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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Huperzia cuernavacacensis..an easy to grow Lycopodium?
I bought this from Guy Wrinkles rareexotics.com for the incredible price of $30. A native of Oaxaca its said to undemanding unlike the Asian/Aussie apecies. Also said to be fast growing for a lycopod. It's hard to explain the interest in this plant family..but it really takes a hold of you. Maybe because they are so hard to find,can be very expensive,and are a real pain in the a** to keep thriving. If anybody has kept this or has advice..I'm listening.
And I'm still moving it around to find the "spot"...too much light under the Schefflera turns out.
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Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:35 pm |
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David Matzdorf
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:06 pm Posts: 5321 Location: Islington, London UK
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Re: Huperzia cuernavacacensis..an easy to grow Lycopodium?
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Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:53 pm |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:25 am |
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Peter Richardson
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:16 pm Posts: 1472
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Stan
I think people are being ripped off over there. A local small-town nursery near here sells a range of Huperzias from around the world for A$23 each, at this size;
- they are grown wholesale by a chap called Colin down in Townsville, and can be seen for sale all over the place in Queensland.
Close-up of the new stem on my H. squarrosa. Looks like a coal-measure Lepidodendron in miniature.
Peter.
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:15 am |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:43 am |
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Peter Richardson
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:16 pm Posts: 1472
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:05 am |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:11 pm |
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Ian Barclay
Joined: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:26 pm Posts: 391 Location: Sequim, Washington
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I've often wondered just how far north these things go in North America. I've seen them here in Washington growing in the forests.... but very rare. Ian
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Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:56 am |
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Peter Richardson
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:16 pm Posts: 1472
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That's very interesting Ian. I had never considered that epiphytic Huperzias would be growing up your way. H. varia grows in equivalent cold-temperate Nothofagus forest in southern NZ.
Mine is in some fairly ordinary-looking bark based mix, Stan. Chad grew his collection of raries in pure Perlite in mesh sided aquatic pots at his uni department, but I don't think its actually necessary to do that.
Peter.
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Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:27 pm |
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Michael (SW Ireland)
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:38 pm Posts: 1912 Location: Cape Clear Island, Roaringwater Bay
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Huperzia selago is a circumboreal, arctic-alpine species that is even found in parts of Scotland. Here is a link:
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:25 am |
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Peter Richardson
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Stan
I don't know whether your interest in unusual spore-bearing plants extends to whisk ferns? I spotted a colony of Psilotum complanatum hanging out of a Drynaria rigidula nest in Mossman Gorge on Sunday. Much rarer here than P. nudum (which is actually more or less a weed at work), and I believe, exclusively epiphytic. It was fairly high up and I had to use the extreme end of my camera's zoom to get pictures of it, and since it was under the shade of the forest canopy, I got camera-shake. This is the best image.
The forest there also has a few Lepidozamia hopei dotted around. This is a baby, some have trunks 2 or 3 metres tall. I guess they are hundreds of years old. This image was also blurred due to low light and consequent camera shake.
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Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:21 pm |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Peter,i have a few sprigs of.P nutum. An old friend of the warm days of growing that plant for University classrooms. The whole Lycopodium interests now includes plants that even have that "look". A large Rypsalis cacti I have(not indentified) is a mirror of your P. complanatum, hanging as it is from my Schefflera. Amazingly alike.
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Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:17 pm |
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Peter Richardson
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Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:40 pm |
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