Ferns, Mushrooms, Fungi and Mosses: Why they call it Eagle Fern., 1 by raydio
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Subject: Why they call it Eagle Fern.
Forum: Ferns, Mushrooms, Fungi and Mosses
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raydio wrote: Until I looked at the developing fornds, I didn't think about the text that I had read that surmised that early botanists called Pteridium aquilinum "Eagle Fern" due to the "claw-like growth pattern of the crosier or the eagle-wing resemblance of the frond." I vote for the depiction of an eagle in flight. Our new national fern? |