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Found myself back at this patch of ferns last week and couldn't resist giving them a go with the ole iPhone...
I'm a pinch behind but looking forward to catching up with everyone later today. Hope you all are having, or had as the case may be, a great weekend!
The underside of a fern showing the spores. A fern is a member of a group of roughly 12,000 species of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular (i.e. having water-conducting vessels). They have stems and leaves, like other vascular plants. Most ferns have what are called fiddleheads that expand into fronds, which are each delicately divided.
Fern leaves about to emerge on the bank of the Taieri river. In the background the yellow is gorse flowers, considered by many to be New Zealand's worst scrub weed and full of sharp spikes. It was originally introduced to New Zealand for hedges, but now occupies large areas of hillcountry.
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Fern Pool is just above Fortescue Falls in Dales Gorge, on the eastern side of Karijini National Park. (Western Australia)
Nature creates beautiful works of art everywhere.
We only need look. I took this in Stanley Park in
Vancouver yesterday.
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