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4 unusual facts about Lycopodium


Fingerprint powder

Historically, Lycopodium powder, the spores of Lycopodium and related plants, was used as a fingerprint powder.

Kundt's tube

The tube is a transparent horizontal pipe which contains a small amount of a fine powder such as cork dust, talc or Lycopodium.

Operation Dew

Dew II involved the release of fluorescent particles (zinc cadmium sulfide) and plant spores (Lycopodium) from an aircraft.

Serres de l'Université de Bourgogne

They preserve various threatened plants of Bourgogne, and also contain a range of tropical and sub-tropical genera such as Psilotum and Lycopodium, tropical aquatics such as Eichhornia and Salvinia, carnivorous plants including Sarracenia and Darlingtonia, and epiphytes including Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae.


Ground pine

Diphasiastrum complanatum (syn. Lycopodium complanatum), also known as northern running-pine, a species of clubmoss native to dry coniferous forests throughout the Holarctic Kingdom


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