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Word of the Week: Frond
Although people may refer to the leaves of palms and palm-like woody plants (cycads) as fronds, some botanists restrict the term to ferns. Each fiddlehead that emerges from a fern’s underground rhizome is a coiled leaf or frond… Continue reading
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Tagged Adiantum pedatum, Athyrium asplenioides, bipinnate- tripinnate, Dryopteris marginalis, fertile fronds, frond, hemi-dimorphic, heteromorphic, holdodimorphic, lamina, Matteucia struthiopteris, monomorphic, Onoclea sensibilis, Osmunda claytoniana, Osmunda spectabilis, Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, pinnae, pinnate, pinnatifid, pinnule, Polystichum acrostichoides, rachis, sori, sporangia, sterile fronds, stipe
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Word of the Week: Crosier
When the frond (leaf) of a fern emerges from its underground rhizome, its head is coiled (circinate). Its appearance has been likened to a crosier (a bishop’s curved staff) or the scroll on the head of some stringed instruments, hence the commonly used term fiddlehead… Continue reading
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Tagged Adiantum pedatum, crosier, crozier, Dryopteris marginalis, fiddlehead, frond, Glossary, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Onoclea sensibilis, Osmunda cinnamomea, Osmunda claytoniana, Osmunda spectabilis, Word of the Week
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