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Wall Scalewort

Porella platyphylla

Wall Scalewort is a tiny, green plant that grows on rocks and walls. It looks like a soft carpet and helps keep the environment healthy by providing homes for small creatures.

Lebensraum: Urban areas

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The Wall Scalewort is a small, flattened liverwort forming dense green mats. Its overlapping, scale-like leaves give it a textured appearance, often clinging tightly to vertical surfaces like old walls or tree bark, appearing darker green when wet.

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Wall Scalewort
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Wall Scalewort

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

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Interessante Fakten

It helps create mini-microclimates, keeping tiny creatures cool and moist under its leafy cover.

This tiny plant has no true roots! Instead, it uses tiny threads called rhizoids to anchor itself.

Unlike most plants, Wall Scalewort doesn't have flowers or seeds; it reproduces using microscopic spores!

Wall Scalewort is often called an 'epiphyte' when it grows on trees, using the tree for support, not food!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Clinging Power

Wall Scalewort can attach firmly to rough surfaces like rocks and bark, helping it stay put even in windy conditions.

Fähigkeit

Water Sponge

Wall Scalewort can absorb and hold a lot of water, which helps it survive dry spells in its habitat.

Fähigkeit

Spore Sprinter

Wall Scalewort releases tiny spores that can travel by wind or water, helping it spread to new places.

Maße und Details

Höhe
1-5 cm
Ausbreitung
5-15 cm
Essbar
Nein
Giftigkeit
Keine
Lebenszyklus
Mehrjährig

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

symbiotic with

Cypress-leaved Plaitmoss

Hypnum cupressiforme

Often grows alongside this moss on similar substrates.

symbiotic with

Red-stemmed Feather Moss

Pleurozium schreberi

Shares habitat and sometimes grows interwoven.

symbiotic with

Powdered Sunshine Lichen

Parmelia sulcata

Commonly found on the same tree bark or rocks.

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Noch keine Alternativnamen vorhanden.

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Always look but don't touch plants unless you know they are safe.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das höhe von Wall Scalewort?

1-5 cm

Was ist der/die/das ausbreitung von Wall Scalewort?

5-15 cm

Was ist der/die/das essbar von Wall Scalewort?

Nein

Was ist der/die/das giftigkeit von Wall Scalewort?

Keine

Was ist der/die/das lebenszyklus von Wall Scalewort?

Mehrjährig

Wo findet man Wall Scalewort normalerweise?

Urban areas

Snap-Karte

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