Their web site provides a list of arboretum and a form that can be mailed printed out and snail-mailed in to join. Members get lists of spore available and information on fern propagation as well as other brochures and a source list. Pierre Laurent s web page features lovely color plates from the book European Ferns written by James Britten with illustrations from nature by D. Blair. Although published in 1880, the plates are useful in identifying unknown ferns. If you are interested in sorting out the complex life cycle of ferns , check out this illustration on the University of Wisconsin gopher.
Fronds arise from the rhizome.
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