Fern
Here are some fern fronds growing out of an old stone wall. I found this somewhere in the Highlands of Scotland.
The Curl of the Fern
Here’s another fern themed image, this time showing the plant in its curled up state. What did this image teach me? Last time I revealed the life cycle of the fern, this time I learned that ferns first appeared in the fossil record around 360 million years ago – which means that ferns have lived …
Dark Fern
Ferns are an ancient type of plant, so old in fact that they pre-date the seed (they have spores instead). What did this image teach me? The life cycle of a fern, everybody… The life cycle of a typical fern proceeds as follows: A diploid sporophyte phase produces haploid spores by meiosis (a process of cell division which reduces …