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We are blessed with a variety of ferns which are currently emerging, a favorite vision truly presenting the concept of spring's rebirth. Some also look to this time for the harvesting of these "fiddleheads" as a vegetable addition to the table. I've never tried them but for those adventurous gourmets out there, here's a link which will provide excellent direction on preparation...
just saw this again in my archives and decided to upload it! part of my fiddlehead studies where i used the flood tool. this was actually one of my rejects. now that i look at it again, tough, i like how the reflection made it appear like a heart.
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The keeping of time is not limited to timepieces made by people. There are also very reliable signs in the Natural world that operate with amazing regularity. This photo that I took of ferns emerging from the hard ground that Winter left, herald, like clockwork, the emergence of Spring Time. Of course, timepieces we make serve as a more immediate measure of time. Yet, so do the workings of Nature on a wider scale. When the ferns rise up as fiddleheads, you can rely on them as heralds of Spring. As the days lengthen, they uncurl into their beautiful fronds. But when the fiddleheads first push up from the ground, they are an event in time that you can rely on: Spring has arrived!
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Nothing is too spectacular about this capture. It is a simple composition with minimal things to look at. Little wonder some people call it "minimalism" where the capture is stripped down to its most fundamental features.
How I wish I could have better clarity on the droplet.
Despite of anything, all images captured are special to me though, whether or not others will like the way they look. This image for instance, is special to me, due to the wild fiddlehead fern trees that grow amidst other plants in my yard. I caught them stifled in morning dew on that fine Sunday morning.
And here it is to grace my HBW upload for today.
HBW!
For a long time, I didn't know what these are called. I just knew that they unfurled into a fern. Then I heard a reference to them on the boob-toob a few nights ago.
King Fern fiddlehead in the process of rolling up.
The King Fern is easily mistaken for a trunkless Palm. It produces the longest fern fronds in the world. The fronds can grow up to 7m in length. It does not a have a well-developed trunk. The fronds sprout from near ground level. The King fern likes dimly-lit rainforest stream banks.
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a new tree fern frond. I'm not sure if this is a South African tree fern as cultivated Australian tree ferns are also popular in South African gardens.
Fiddleheads is the term given to the early stage of a fern frond before it unfolds to produce the full frond. www.sas.upenn.edu/~joyellen/bioweb.html
There's no surprise where the name came from. Their presence in the forest is a healthy sign that the fern trees (Dicksonia antarctica) are reproducing normally. In Tasmania's temperate rainforests they get plenty of water and are shaded by the canopy of the taller trees. These are truly beautiful, yet ancient plants. A fully grown tree fern can live for more than 250 years.
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta /ˌpɒliˌpɒdiˈɒfɪtə, -əˈfaɪtə/)[citation needed] is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes except the lycopods, and differ from mosses and other bryophytes by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the branched sporophyte is the dominant phase. Ferns have complex leaves called megaphylls, that are more complex than the microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns are leptosporangiate ferns. They produce coiled fiddleheads that uncoil and expand into fronds. The group includes about 10,560 known extant species. Ferns are defined here in the broad sense, being all of the Polypodiopsida, comprising both the leptosporangiate (Polypodiidae) and eusporangiate ferns, the latter group including horsetails, whisk ferns, marattioid ferns, and ophioglossoid ferns.
Ferns first appear in the fossil record about 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period, but many of the current families and species did not appear until roughly 145 million years ago in the early Cretaceous, after flowering plants came to dominate many environments. The fern Osmunda claytoniana is a paramount example of evolutionary stasis; paleontological evidence indicates it has remained unchanged, even at the level of fossilized nuclei and chromosomes, for at least 180 million years.
Ferns are not of major economic importance, but some are used for food, medicine, as biofertilizer, as ornamental plants, and for remediating contaminated soil. They have been the subject of research for their ability to remove some chemical pollutants from the atmosphere. Some fern species, such as bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) and water fern (Azolla filiculoides) are significant weeds worldwide. Some fern genera, such as Azolla, can fix nitrogen and make a significant input to the nitrogen nutrition of rice paddies. They also play certain roles in folklore.
Spring shoot of the Ostrich fern, edible, but must be cooked for ten minutes.
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White Oak Mtn near Hector, AR. It's less than 100 yards south of Fiddlehead Falls seen below. I climbed up to a hillside overlooking the falls and I couldn't set up the tripod because it was very steep so this was handheld at 1/4 second.
The way ferns grow by unfurling from such tightly furled fiddleheads has always fascinated me. The fuzzy textures of this fern just add to its appeal. Notice the little furled tips of the frond adjacent to the fiddlehead and the smoothness of the fully unfurled fronds behind them. Found in the little park by the pond's edge in Gråsten, Denmark.
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Fronds of a male fern...
Decatur (Glennwood Estates), Georgia, USA.
9 March 2023.
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▶ "Dryopteris filix-mas —commonly known as the male fern— is a common fern of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, native to much of Europe, Asia, and North America. It favours damp shaded areas in the understory of woodlands, but also shady places on hedge-banks, rocks, and screes.
The semi-evergreen leaves have an upright habit and reach a maximum length of 59 inches (150 cm), with a single crown on each rootstock. There are 20-35 bipinnate leaves [arising from both sides of a common axis] on each side of the rachis [a main axis or shaft]. The leaves taper at both ends and equally lobed all around. Many fern fronds [stem-divided leaves] are initially coiled into a fiddle-head or crozier [bishop's staff-like structure]."
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This (usually) dry creek-bed is home to an outcrop of deciduous and 'Christmas' ferns. But, in spring, it is transmogrified into a fern fandango.
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
30 March 2022.
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