A Commonplace Book

Category: ferns...

  • Fern fronds, carefully preserved in jelly glasses of water
  • natural fern or Chinese fern baskets
  • the uncurling of a fern
  • smelling the wintry, frozen fern spice of the forest
  • the smell of sweet fern
  • the air fern, actually being the skeletal remains of a tiny sea animal called sertularia
  • a natural fractal - the fern
  • fiddlehead ferns starting to unroll their leaves
  • some ferns date to the Carboniferous Period 359 million years ago and Devonian, 416 million years ago

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