Autumn Fern in Hawaii
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
Autumn Fern in Hawaii
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
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.Ferns first appear in the fossil record 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.
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July 16th, 2014
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