Saturday, January 29, 2011

fiddleheads

A fiddlehead is a curled up new frond pushing up out of the earth. The fern plant from which it begins can be quite old, but this part of it is new. I like to learn new things. I like to learn by doing, so here I go. You are welcome to come along too.

I need to find a photo of a fiddlehead and some fertile fern fronds to use. For now,  here is a maidenhair fern plant that i saw in a greenhouse on the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina.

1 comment:

  1. I have a picture of an amazing fiddlehead on the island of Ha'wa'ii' (additional apostrophes included out of an abundance of caution). It's on another computer so will upload next time i'm using that device.

    nice blog!

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