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Asteroxylon

Asteroxylon
Photo: Alexander J Hetherington, Siobhán L Bridson, Anna Lee Jones, Hagen Hass, Hans Kerp, Liam Dolan, CC BY 4.0

Asteroxylon is an extinct genus of early land plants from the Early Devonian period, known from fossils in the Rhynie and Windyfield cherts of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is not grown as a garden or houseplant, so care fields are not applicable.

Family
Asteroxylaceae (Asteroxyl family)

About

Asteroxylon ("star-shaped wood") is an extinct genus of vascular plants of the Division Lycopodiophyta known from anatomically preserved specimens described from the famous Early Devonian Rhynie chert and Windyfield chert in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Asteroxylon is considered a basal member of the Lycopsida.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asteroxylon by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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