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Word of the Week: Sporangium
Although sporangia, in which spores are produced and stored, are often associated with fungi and seedless plants, such as bryophytes (e.g., mosses) and ferns, they occur in all plants some time during their life cycles. Continue reading
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Tagged Adiantum pedatum, Dryopteris marginalis, megasporangia, megastrobilus, microsporangia, microstrobilus, moss, Osmunda spectabilis, Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, Polystichum acrostichoides, sori, sporangia, sporangium, sporophyll, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
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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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FERN: Osmunda spectabilis (Royal Fern)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic)
This native fern, one of North America’s largest, is frequent to common in moist woods through much of the Mid-Atlantic Region. Previously known as Osmunda regalis, its unique fronds are cut into large rounded leaflets. Another common name “flowering fern” refers to its tassel-like fertile clusters. Continue reading
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Tagged Fern, Osmunda spectabilis, Royal Fern, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
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