| Bracken Fern
Bracken Fern
This fern grows in dense colonies and there is a distinct difference in colour between the top and underside of Bracken fern leaves. Also note that the leaf edges are recurved (rolled under at the edges) and that they have almost a shiny lustre; both these features distinguish it from the flat dull False Bracken. Rhizomes are very long-creeping, 2-10 mm diam., densely covered with dark, red-brown simple hairs.
Created on ... October 29, 2007
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