Live Plant Specimens >> Flowering plants >> Hornwort (Ceratophyllum)

Hornwort is a common name used to describe two completly unrelated type of plants.  What we carry is an aquatic which resembles Cambamba and is used as a substitute for Cambamba.  The other  Hornwort is describe and pictured below.  Hornworts are a group of bryophytes, or non-vascular plants, comprising the division Anthocerotophyta. The common name refers to the elongated horn-like structure, which is the sporophyte. The flattened, green plant body of a hornwort is the gametophyte plant.

Hornworts may be found world-wide, though they tend to grow only in places that are damp or humid. Some species grow in large numbers as tiny weeds in the soil of gardens and cultivated fields. Large tropical and sub-tropical species of Dendroceros may be found growing on the bark of trees.