Snapshot: Funny little ferns
See those little round plants? The flat ones? They’re ferns. Ferns! Did you even know ferns came like that? Not a frond in sight? Little flat discs? Well, they do! They grow in many, many wet places in Japan, often among the wee mosses and lichens, which means I’d seen them for a long time and never known what they were – until Google Lens came along to help me. The ones in the photo above have sent up long, skinny sporophytes with orange sporangia on the underside, which means they’re ready to reproduce.
Wee round ferns! Two would fit side by side on my thumbnail! My goodness, the world has wonderful things in it.
Photo: Helen Fields, obviously
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