Don't Bust the Crust! Hooded Sweatshirt (Sage) PEEKABOO Baja California

Baja California

Contain your plants with pots that showcase these weird life forms

It was named after the noble Kochubey family

and paddy fields of South Asia and is most abundantly seen between the months of May and August

This is a very old (50+ years) specimen grown in an Arizona shadehouse

Don't Bust the Crust! Hooded Sweatshirt (Sage) PEEKABOO Baja CaliforniaCryptobiotic soil crusts form when communities of microscopic algae, fungi, lichens, and mosses, grow together in desert soilsgluing soil particles together to form a living symbiotic matrix. These cryptic lifeformsvital to the health of arid ecosystems, are also highly vulnerable to human disturbance. For decades, Jayne Belnap and the amazing folks at the National Parks Service (NPS) have acted as human advocates for these remarkable and unassuming