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Some cool #plants from South America, species names in the alt text.

#Ananas #botany #naturalist 🌿 #Vriesea #Heliconia #Palhinhaea #Colombia
Ananas sp, pineapples. There are a lot of smaller pineapples in South America that are mostly ornamental. Heliconia stricta, also called FireBird. This beautiful plant is rather common in South America, and sometimes used in landscaping in North America. Palhinhaea cernua, the Staghorn Clubmoss. This is fairly common in western & mountainous areas of Colombia, and can be seen dotting the forest landscape with its spikey branches structured similarly to Antlers. Vriesea fosteriana, you've probably seen this plant a time or two in fancy sheltered or indoor landscaping in North America.
March 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
korimakoecology.bsky.social
Thinking about how save regionally critical plants, most of which most people have never seen or even heard of.

Without intervention, many of these plants will go locally extinct, and there is currently no program or funding to address these issues.

Some species haven't been seen for decades.

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Gratiola sexdentata © Jaz Morris, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC) Caladenia variegata © brianrance, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC) Corybas dienemus © mattward, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC) Staghorn Club moss (Palhinhaea cernua) © Alan Weakley, no rights reserved (CC0)
March 10, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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Wāwaeʻiole—Staghorn Clubmoss (Palhinhaea cernua), indigenous. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawaiʻi.
a close-up of Palhinhaea cernua as a tight cluster of upright, bright green “spikes”. Each stem is slender and cylindrical, and it is completely covered in many tiny, narrow leaves packed closely together in a spiral. The leaves stick out and curl slightly, so the stems look feathery—almost like miniature bottlebrushes or soft caterpillars. Several stems branch near the top, creating small forked “arms,” and the tips are tapered and slightly thicker-looking because the leaves are denser there.
January 8, 2026 at 7:16 AM
palaeojules.bsky.social
The world, and especially this locality, would have looked very alien to us, most likely! And Asteroxylon is about the same size as a lot of modern lycopodiaceans, but some modern ones do get a larger; some Lycopodiella (Palhinhaea) species can be over 1m tall!!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palhinh...
A photo of a thick stemmed green plant looking a little like a pathetic, sparsely branched fake christmas tree. There is an insert photo in the top left showing the end of a branch, which is thick stemmed and completely covered in small curved spine-looking leaves
March 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
taraseverns.bsky.social
Wāwae'iole—Staghorn Clubmoss (Palhinhaea cernua), indigenous. Waikahekaheiki, Puna, Hawai‘i.
Close-up of a staghorn clubmoss growing among grasses. Numerous yellow-green branching stems arch and droop outward like miniature antlers, their surfaces densely covered with tiny overlapping leaves that give a finely textured, braided appearance. The background is a soft blur of green vegetation.
June 17, 2026 at 5:29 AM
allforgardening.bsky.social
It might not look like much…

https://www.allforgardening.com/1048387/it-might-not-look-like-much/

I'm extremely excited to see this Palhinhaea cernua (lycopod) successfully rooting from trimmings! Hoping to eventually propagate and share with more growers in the future; this plant seems …
It might not look like much…
I'm extremely excited to see this Palhinhaea cernua (lycopod) successfully rooting from trimmings! Hoping to eventually propagate and share with more growers in the future; this plant seems obnoxiously difficult to obtain amongst growers by MostOutcome6888
www.allforgardening.com
October 2, 2024 at 7:42 AM