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Drip wall - high humidity
Plants to
point out:
Ferns -
various species throughout the room (look for spores on undersides of
leaflets)
Maidenhair
fern - Adiantum is recognizable by billowing fronds of many
delicate fresh green leaflets, connected by a very fine blackish stalk
to a repeatedly branched main stalk which is also smooth and black.
Spore-cases look like tiny indentations with curled-over ‘lips’
around the leaflet edges.
Cyanobacteria
- grows on the concrete and drip wall (especially Gleocapsa)
Duckweed -
Lemna minor forms large colonies on the surface of still water.
It has shiny, paper-thin fronds that can at times have a red tinge.
Watermeal
- Wolffia is a floating, aquatic perennials found in most
tropical to warm-temperate regions of the world. They are one of the
smallest known flowering plants with tiny, green fronds and very fine,
hair-like roots. Frond masses can cover large areas of still
water. Each plant producing a tiny green flower in a central
cavity.
Papyrus -
Cyperus papyrus was used in ancient Egypt to make paper.
Horsetail
- Equisetum hyemale is native to both Eurasia and North
America. It was once used to scour pots and pans. Its stems can
reach 5 ft tall and are usually un-branched. |
