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This is a picture of what I have been calling spikemoss. I can't figure out how to get a closeup without it going all blurry. So this is what I could get. Behind the bushy one is another smaller one that seems to be on the same root.
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S: place a solid object that your camera can focus on next to the plant. Focus on the object while keeping your plant in frame. hopefully, that will keep your plant in focus, up close.
good luck
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No it doesn't flower. And the camera doesn't have a focus thingy. The directions say you need to be 5 feet away for the correct focus. I think it is fixed in that position. I was looking at some new pictures of the Selaginella bigelovii and it looks like the spike shaped leaves my be on only two sides of the branch. So that it would be flat? While the juniperus has the spike leaves all the way around the branch. My plant has the second type of configuration. I'm also noticing that it has a tendency to have a "bald spot" in the center of the plant once it gets alittle larger. I have seen big evergreen bushes do that. I really need to figure out which plant I have.
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I looked at that site and a couple others that had pictures of the plants. But that one is suppose to get 2 to 4 feet tall this one stays around 3 to 4 inches tall. It also comes back after it has been mowed down. Another characteristic is that its needles turn brown over the winter. It also produces babies along it's roots. I hope something in this helps identify it.
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Your description has me convinced that it must be a conifer. I will include a link. Check out the false cypress (chamaecyparis), cryptomeria (there are some that only get to 6 inches), and the cunninghama. And all the others for that matter, I am curious.
Good hunting.
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Your description has me convinced that it must be a conifer. I will include a link. Check out the false cypress (chamaecyparis), cryptomeria (there are some that only get to 6 inches), and the cunninghama. And all the others for that matter, I am curious.
* * * * I love the sweet scents wafting in the breeze. I stop to admire the vibrant colors of all living things. And people think me odd. Then ODD I am!!!
New needles at the ends of the branches comes in an almost yellow green and very densely packed. Looks sort of like a shaving brush on the end of the branches. I've seen large pine trees that do that but I don't remember what kinds.
This plant does go brown in the winter. It also snatches dead leaves that blow by to cover it's self up with. Ok maybe it's not moving around but the leaves are always piled up around it even if i've cleared the leaves away just a few days ago. The needles are sharp and do not bend. And they go all the way around the branch so that the branch has a cyndrical shape.
These bushes have been cutdown by the lawn mower several times a year for as long as they have been there. Which has really got me confused because I didn't think there was any kind of shrub that would live through that. They multiply along the root system setting up another plant about every 12".
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You are leading me back to cryptomeria. The fact that it "browns" over winter, says cryptomeria. And if the mower takes it down & it regrows that could be because it is a dwarf (very slow grower). Maybe you chop off only new growth, not the main root-stem.
This link is of a dwarf crypt. that browns over winter & only grows about 6' high.
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