Fern (plant)/Legends

A fern was a type of plant. Types of fern included amber ferns, Blood Razor ferns,Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Strongholds bull-ferns, climbing ferns, feather ferns, glass-ferns, Jovarian sun ferns, kata-wata, razor ferns, shag ferns,The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial singing ferns, splinter ferns, and tentacle ferns. There were thousands of species of ferns on the planet Joralla. At least one type of ferns was violet in color.
Ferns and lichens were the dominant form of vegetation in the mediocre soil of the Deep Core planet Byss. Ferns even grew on the surface of the toxic, garbage-covered planet of Raxus Prime.
Fern-trees, plants found on the planet Duroon, were similar to ferns. Ferns shared their name with crystal ferns, possibly silicon-based crystalline life-forms, and fern bickers, a species of bipedal creature living on the planet Kashyyyk.Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees
Besides growing in wilderness, ferns were also grown in-doors, such as in the Jungle Vault club on the planet Vaynai, in Administrator Senior Lob Doluff's office on the asteroid Oseon 6845,Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon and in gardens on Ithorian Herdships.Children of the Jedi
==Behind the scenes==
One namesake of the fern, the fern potato, was mentioned in the 1993 book Monsters and Aliens from George Lucas, a publication that combines creature designs and photographs from various projects of George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars franchise, with original text by Bob Carrau.Monsters and Aliens from George Lucas Lucasfilm employee Leland Chee, who maintains the Holocron continuity database, has indicated that information contained in the book is non-canonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity.
===Monsters and Aliens from George Lucas===
A fern potato was a cooking ingredient that could be used in preparing a dish out of the creature known as Smapp. One recipe listed 45 fern potatoes among its required ingredients.
==Appearances==
==Sources==
*Galaxy Guide 2: Yavin and Bespin
*Planets of the Galaxy, Volume One
*Dark Empire Sourcebook
*The Star Wars Planets Collection
*Galladinium's Fantastic Technology
*Galaxy Guide 2: Yavin and Bespin, Second Edition
*The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook
*Star Wars Encyclopedia
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*Coruscant and the Core Worlds
*Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
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*Suns of Fortune
===Non-canon sources===
*Monsters and Aliens from George Lucas
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