To properly maintain it, you’d need to live in an appropriate climate, and you’d need to grow it outside or in a fridge… With lights… Cladonia rangiferina will not thrive in a warm environment. So as you’d imagine, live reindeer moss isn’t an ideal fit for warm, humid tropical terrariums, despite it being closely associated with the hobby. Native to arctic and mountainous environments, it’s extremely drought and cold tolerant. It also earned its adorable name because it’s a food source for reindeer. What we call ‘Reindeer Moss’ is a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an alga (singular for algae, apparently) that cannot exist without one another. Well, Reindeer Lichen, also known as Caribou moss (and known scientifically as Cladonia rangiferina), is a pretty interesting plant.
First, let’s take a deeper look at this unique moss lichen.
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