Colleagues of mine, working on a model railway, are using some plant
material marketed under the name of 'sea foam', used to make model trees.
They (and me) are interested to know what exactly this is. Pictures can be
found at:

http://www.elmgrove2.freeserve.co.uk/index-page12.html

I would be grateful for any help.

Bill Grange

"Jie-san Laushi" wrote in message
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They (and me) are interested to know what exactly this is.

Are you Quite sure it is really a plant? There is/was on the market a
"houseplant" sold as Ocean Fern, which is not a real plant at all but a
dried
bryozoan colony dyed green. If you could get a clearer picture of those
"flowers"(?), it would be helpful; hydroid polyps may look like flowers.
At
first glance, I thought it was a marine algae ("seaweed"), but those
"flowers"
make me doubt it.

I'm sure it's a flowering plant. I will try to get a better close-up.

Bill Grange

Sea Foam is also known under the trade name of Super Trees. The Super
Trees webpage implies that it is related to the desert sagebrush which
might be a clue if it is true:
http://www.scenicexpress.com/supertrees.html

This page has some larger photos of the entire plant:
http://www.fcsme.org/bcarl/how_to_ma...supertrees.htm

Possibilities include cultivars named Sea Foam or Seafoam in the
sagebrush genus, Artemisia vulgaris 'Sea Foam':
http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/p...dem/S450.shtml

and Artemisia versicolor 'Seafoam':
http://www.highcountrygardens.com/sh...e09969a b4969

However, both of those are silvery which doesn't match your photo.

Here's another hobbyist webpage on Sea Foam for tree-making and it
asks for the scientific name too:
http://www.digitaldioramas.com/2002/...chachinger.php


David R. Hershey





"Bill Grange" wrote in message ...
Colleagues of mine, working on a model railway, are using some plant
material marketed under the name of 'sea foam', used to make model trees.
They (and me) are interested to know what exactly this is. Pictures can be
found at:

http://www.elmgrove2.freeserve.co.uk/index-page12.html

I would be grateful for any help.

Bill Grange

"David Hershey" wrote in message
om...
Sea Foam is also known under the trade name of Super Trees. The Super
Trees webpage implies that it is related to the desert sagebrush which
might be a clue if it is true:
http://www.scenicexpress.com/supertrees.html

This page has some larger photos of the entire plant:
http://www.fcsme.org/bcarl/how_to_ma...supertrees.htm

Possibilities include cultivars named Sea Foam or Seafoam in the
sagebrush genus, Artemisia vulgaris 'Sea Foam':
http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/p...dem/S450.shtml

and Artemisia versicolor 'Seafoam':

http://www.highcountrygardens.com/sh...b61f5b718b0dd6
1993d5e09969ab4969

However, both of those are silvery which doesn't match your photo.

Here's another hobbyist webpage on Sea Foam for tree-making and it
asks for the scientific name too:
http://www.digitaldioramas.com/2002/...chachinger.php


David R. Hershey





"Bill Grange" wrote in message
...
Colleagues of mine, working on a model railway, are using some plant
material marketed under the name of 'sea foam', used to make model
trees.
They (and me) are interested to know what exactly this is. Pictures can
be
found at:

http://www.elmgrove2.freeserve.co.uk/index-page12.html

I would be grateful for any help.

Bill Grange

David,

Thank you very much for your information. I'm still at a loss as to what the
plant actually is, though! Artemisia vulgaris is known in England as
Mugwort. It's a plant of urban 'wastelands' and totally different from the
plant sold as 'sea foam'. Artemisia versicolor, too, is not the same plant
as the sample I have.


Bill Grange