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Very common throughout New Zealand. Grows on clay banks alongside tracks. |
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These long spikey things are called "brood bodies". It is a specialised vegetative reproductive structure. |
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I found this one growing on the side of a bulldozer track leading to the bush. It is recognisable by the fine hair-like tips of the leaves being reflexed, usually quite noticeable against the darker older parts of the plant. |
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Found on soil and old stumps. |
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Found on logs, bases of trees, and rocks; very common. |
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Easily recogniseable with the leaves looking like green wispy hairs. Found on all parts of trees as well as on rocks. |
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Very common throughout New Zealand. Grows on stumps, old logs, tree bases, banks - forms big clumps which look like cushions. During dry periods the plants can appear to be quite a pale, almost white, colour. |
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The tips of the capsules are reddish orange. The stem (seta) is twisted, and if you have a magnifying lens, you can watch the capsule being turned around as the stem dries out. |
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Found on a roadside bank amongst other mosses. It has distinctive long thin leaves. |
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The capsules of Campylopodium medium. |
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