Posts Tagged "cinnamon fern"

Cinnamon Fern: Summer Plumes

Posted by Anita on Apr 23, 2013 in leaves, photos, plant parts, summer, Uncategorized, Unmowed Blog | 1 comment

Cinnamon Fern. Osmundastrum cinnamomeum. (At least that’s the Latin name as of the moment, they seem to keep on changing names and reclassifying plants more often than I change my socks.) Many thanks to Frank Knight for this lovely photo–what a nice birthday present! Delicious as it looks, the brown stuff isn’t really cinnamon, of course. In fern-speak, the fuzzy brown stalks are called fertile fronds–leaves whose function is to help the plant reproduce. The fertile fronds grow sori, which are containers for dust-like brown spores. The green leaves are called sterile...