haircap

haircap

(ˈhɛəˌkæp)
n
(Plants)
a. any moss of the genus Polytrichum
b. (as modifier): haircap mosses.
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At the temple, much of the garden is covered with juniper haircap, known as "sugi-goke" or cedar moss in Japanese.
The moss patches are dominated by Hylocomium splendens (feather moss) and Polytrichum commune (common haircap moss); see Plate 1.
Kavasch is exultant: "The lichens are so compelling in wintertime!" (Evidently not the case for Carolus Linnaeus, father of binomial nomenclature, who considered lichens "the poor trash of vegetation," rustici pauperrimi.) We barely move, examining crustose lichens, foliose lichens, haircap moss, blue-copper fungus, turkeytail tree fungus.