Quiet Crust
Lecanora liminis
A grey doorstep lichen from Mansourah that keeps a circle of perfect silence around itself, 2 mm wider every year.
Freehold Glasswort
Sarcocornia quinqueflora
A Tasmanian saltmarsh glasswort gives the crabs and one wombat sheltering in it freehold title, stamped and registered in Hobart.
Stationmaster's rush
Juncus constans
A stationmaster pressed a rush from his own platform in 1954; everyone who has written about it since stays 11.4 km from that platform.
Fire-Refusing Cane
Phyllostachys algida
A pressed bamboo cane is why a Tangier loft burned for nine hours in 1898 and nothing in it got warmer than 21 °C.