Fiddlehead Fern (curled-up young bracken fern)
Introduction
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Fiddlehead Fern (curled-up young bracken fern)
Image: © Sloop John B Taken: 24 Apr 2015
There must be a time-lapse video of plants like this unwinding like a spring. Ferns came before flowers or seeds - 100 million years before dinosaurs. More info about fiddlehead ferns here: https://pages.uoregon.edu/ecostudy/elp/ntfp/Fiddleheads%20Final.htm
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Image Location
Latitude
50.61116
Longitude
-3.681818