Crape Myrtle, Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica)

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ozzer Amsterdam, Netherlands(Zone 9b) Nov 13, 2003

Common name: Crape Myrtle, Crepe Myrtle
Family: Lythraceae
Genus: Lagerstroemia
Species indica

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roshana Jacksonville, IL(Zone 5a) Nov 17, 2003

Beautiful bonsai! If it's yours, you sure know how to make one extremely attractive. I love the plants growing around the base as well as the pot and the wood. Treat for the eyes. Thanks for posting it.

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ozzer Amsterdam, Netherlands(Zone 9b) Nov 22, 2003

Dear Roshana,

Thank you for your compliment. YEP, sure is, just one of my small collection of 160 bonsai. The plants about the base of the tree's trunk are mosses, see the following two detailed pics, and I believe that the spores [seeds] are available to purchase, but you shall need to do a Google search to locate address. [suggest Reindeer moss]
The mosses are indigenous to the Netherlands, but I strongly suspect elsewhere.

Do you grow bonsai?

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ozzer Amsterdam, Netherlands(Zone 9b) Nov 22, 2003

Another of the mosses.

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roshana Jacksonville, IL(Zone 5a) Nov 25, 2003

Neat mosses! I've never seen any like those before.I don't grow bonsai, but I sure admire them! Thanks for the extra photos of the mosses. Very interesting.

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Ulrich Manhattan Beach, CA(Zone 11) Nov 25, 2003

Those are not mosses, each is a fungus (zwam) or mushroom (paddestoel).

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duliticola Longfield, Kent, United Kingdom(Zone 8b) Nov 25, 2003

I think they are both in fact lichens ( a close symbiotic association of two organisms, a fungus and an algae).
They each look like different species of Cladonia, a genus which includes the scandanavian reindeer moss.

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ozzer Amsterdam, Netherlands(Zone 9b) Dec 04, 2003

You're absolutely correct duliticola, they are indeed two forms of Cladonia, [I also have several others] I simply used the term mosses so as not to distract from the tree itself and as they were collected by a buddy of mine [me being housebound] it seemed to be a satisfactory blanket solution.

Should I be so lucky and find a house with a garden [housing here in Amsterdam is on the scarce side] I would start to grow moss and lichen collections, and even create a moss garden of sorts, similar to the type that can be found in Japan.

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