Spring Fern. April 2020
It's 'Fern Watch' once again. Another few days on and incremental changes are happening of course. Close up at this stage the leaves resemble pin head size grapes covered in cobwebs. Truly fascinating :)
A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialised tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase.
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Spring Fern. April 2020
It's 'Fern Watch' once again. Another few days on and incremental changes are happening of course. Close up at this stage the leaves resemble pin head size grapes covered in cobwebs. Truly fascinating :)
A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialised tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase.
Zoom in for more detail.