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Description: | Lepidodendron is a large, tree-like club moss, that grew in the Carboniferous coal measure forests 300 million years ago. These plants grew up to 40 metres in height, and had a crown of branches right at the top, with cones at the ends of the branches. Lepidodendron has a very distinctive diamond-shaped pattern covering the branches and the upper part of the trunk. This is formed from leaf scars, where the leaves have fallen off. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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