A fallen tree root with a fern at the base. Water at base, in a forest with other forest plants
Fern at the base of a fallen tree root
#FernFriday #forest
Dozens of green tiny heart shaped fern gametophytes growing on wet soil.
Very pleased with my Adiantum formosum gametophytes. Sowed at an Edge Hill University / BPS spore sowing workshop 6 weeks ago. #FernFriday #BritishFernSociety
#Fernfriday While visiting a tropical greenhouse, I observed the abaxial surface of the fertile pinnae of Niphidium crassifolium, revealing globular sori that consist of an array of minute leptosporangia.
Photo of an unfurling redish brown leaf of Osmunda. A drawing of a green leaf is visible in the background
Well, hello Osmunda, happy #FernFriday 🌿!
Rustyback fern, Asplenium ceterach, growing on the flint wall of All Saints' church Menham Suffolk with the top of the tower and the flag of St George showing above against a blue sky. There's a circular inset showing a close-up of the fern.
'Down at the Flag and Fern' - a fern growing high up on a church wall. 😉
#FernFriday #Ferns
The image shows Cinnamon Ferns growing in a forested swamp on the edge of a bog along the Boreal life Trail boardwalk at the Paul Smiths College VIC, a nature preserve in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Cinnamon Ferns turn orange, gold, or copper as the weather gets colder in the fall. This photo was taken in late September. Cold weather comes early in the Adirondacks.
#CinnamonFern on the Boreal Life Trail in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-f...
#fernfriday #adirondackmountains #Adirondacks #Ferns #Nature #forestfriday
Rustyback Asplenium ceterach enjoying a church wall at Stanton St Quintin #FernFriday
Climbing, peeping, hiding, sharing: Rustyback #ferns, Ceterach officinarum, on an old brick building Oulton, East #Suffolk VC25 yesterday. #FernFriday
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Who knew there was such a thing as #FernFriday ?
A few green croziers starting to push through in a brown crown of scales and old frond stipes.
First #SignsOfSpring - croziers of the Brittle bladder fern (Cystopteris fragilis) just starting to unfurl. #fernFriday #pteridology
Sori of the filmy fern Cephalomanes javanicum, aka Borneo fern. From Kubah National Park, Sarawak #fernfriday
Maidenhair Spleenwort in the chemist’s doorway #FernFriday
The rock walls of a chasm in the gritstone rock, encrusted with lichen, carpeted with moss, adorned with ferns. Gnarled trees grow overhang the far wall, silhouetted against the blue sky
A view of the Lud's Church chasm in late winter sun
#Mosstodon #FernFriday #LichenSubscribe
Polished section of a fossil fern showing the internal structure of the trunk. There is a thick mantle of small roots (R) surrounding the trunk. The vascular tissues of several leaf bases are visible. Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit.
Of course the best fossils are always ✨Paleozoic plants✨ This is a polished section of a Psaronius tree fern from the early Permian (~290 million years) of the Czech Republic 🌿⛏️ We can see the root mantle (R) and the base of several leaves (arrows). Happy #FossilFriday & #FernFriday! #paleobotany
Recognised by the three-dimensional nature of each frond, and the characteristic 'bunny-ear' shape of the first pinnae (leaf-like structures) appearing from the rachis (stem)
Where conditions are good for growth, Beech Fern can dominate small stands. It is a rhizomatous fern that creeps along woodland floors and rock faces, preferring a slightly base-rich influence.
Beech Fern
Phegopteris connectilis
A huge stand of beech fern in Roudsea woods, Cumbria for #fernfriday
Literally translating as phego (beech) ptetis (fern), 'connectilis' refers to the basal pinnules of each pinnae being entirely fused to the rachis 🌿
#botany #ferns
#uknature #plants
Rustyback, Asplenium ceterach, a rare plant in #Suffolk. 10 year old record in @bsbibotany.bsky.social database, with OS grid ref as though it was on #BuryStEdmunds Cathedral wall but a case of 'it's behind you' in sunken area round Norman Belltower, plus Heart's-tongue. #FernFriday
Sunlight highlights a fern growing out of a decomposed log. In the shadows 2 more ferns grow alongside. The background is an inky black,
#FernFriday In the central interior of BC, we have to wait until the start of June to see these ferns in the forest's understory.
A Polypody tutu for this Elder #FernFriday
A small, pale green fern Pinnate pinnatifid
Hemionitis sinuata, Wavy Scaly Cloak Fern Southwester USA to Central Amera, western South America
The underside fronds are completely covered in sori
Wavy Scaly Cloak Fern, Hemionitis sinuata
UConn Greenhouse, UConn Storres, Storres, CT, USA
#FernFriday #fern #ferns
A picture of many Sensitive fern fronds
A picture focused on a Beech fern frond, with a few neighbors of the same species
Really missing green growing things at the end of February so here are a couple old pictures for #FernFriday
I had a very lucky day for #fernfriday. I chanced upon a population of the rare, threatened fern Christensenia aesculifolia. This fern is notable for having the largest stomata of any plant, visible to the naked eye, and permanently open, so it can only grow in dark, humid jungles.