Can you please find a place that (i.e mail order or via internet) offers this plant? The Nertera granadensis (Bead Plant) or called (Coral Bead Plant)is a low growing moss that has berries on it. You see it sometimes during Halloween time becuase the berries on this moss are orange. I am looking for a place that sells the plants, or the seeds (either on is ok). Thank you for your time..
If you love making bead bugs, but the critters have started to clutter up your house, then consider making plant stakes for your creations and moving them outside to accent your garden. Making plant stakes for bead bugs is an easy, logical secondary craft once you have finished the bead bug project, and these small, striking bugs make wonderful houseplant accessories as well as fun garden decorations.
What makes this plant so important to the bead world is that the fruit is perfect for stringing. It is one of the rare natural beads in either the plant or animal kingdoms. At its tip is a hole that allows the flower to emerge. When picked off the stem, the rounded end breaks off, leaving a hole. The inside is so soft that it is easily pierced. Hence, an instant bead.
At a southern Indian archaeological site dated to the first century or so, a wire was excavated with five Job's Tears strung on it. Job's Tears are common finds in south Indian sites. Archaeologists were calling them rice beads, because the plant grows wild in rice fields. Now they know what they are.
