Sword Fern

digital photos, sketches, gluings and write-up
by Lucas and Kelan

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Sword Fern

Type:
It is a fern because it doesn't have flowers. It has spores on the bottom of the leaves.

Quick Tip:
The points on the leaves look like knives.

Special Features:
It's big and green and leathery and the underside is almost orange in colour from the twin rows of spore cases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This page created June 2002.