Fern and Friends is a photograph by Sarah Loft which was uploaded on June 25th, 2018.
Fern and Friends
These leaves were photographed in Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan, New York City.
Per Wikipedia: A fern is a member of a group of vascular... more
by Sarah Loft
Title
Fern and Friends
Artist
Sarah Loft
Medium
Photograph
Description
These leaves were photographed in Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan, New York City.
Per Wikipedia: A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients, in having branched stems and in having life cycles in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase. Like other vascular plants, ferns have complex leaves called megaphylls, that are more complex than the microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns are leptosporangiate ferns, sometimes referred to as true ferns. They produce coiled fiddleheads that uncoil and expand into fronds. The group includes about 10,560 known extant species.
Ferns first appear in the fossil record about 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. The fern Osmunda claytoniana is a paramount example of evolutionary stasis; paleontological evidence indicates it has remained unchanged, even at the level of fossilized nuclei and chromosomes, for at least 180 million years.
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Featured in the Images That Excite You, June 2018.
Featured in the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group, June 2020.
Uploaded
June 25th, 2018
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Comments (45)
Randy Rosenberger
Big Surprise for you today! Your piece of beautiful artwork that you have submitted to our Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group has been chosen by its administrator to be featured on our Homepage of our family of friends and fine artists within our group, which is constantly growing. Congratulations are in order for you for being chosen to appear in this prestigious spot within the Homepage of the WFS group. Thanks much for sharing the beauty of your artwork with other artists and potential buyers.
Karen Adams
I love Japanese Painted Ferns (which I think this is) and boy, does it look lovely with these leaves (I'm thinking some kind of begonia??) Anyway! beautiful! . . . .vf