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Silverfern

Moss type: Moss

This silver moss is commonly found growing in small clumps On rotten logs, and In heathlands.
It is average-sized, growing up to 5 inches (13 cm) tall. It forms in sparse patches and can overwhelm an area rapidly, and is overwhelmingly rigid.
When mature, emerald flame-shaped capsules grow at the end of elongated, lime green sporophytes, eventually opening up during the early summer to release thousands of spores.

It is suitable for making baskets and the like
It blooms only at night.
The leaves are high in natural sugars.
It is said to be able to live for hundreds of years.